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YEREVAN. – Turkey is the main culprit in the ongoing genocide of the Yezidis in the Yezidi-populated Shangal [Sinjar] province of [Northern] Iraq.

Shangal newspaper editor Gyurjis Kochoyan stated the above-said at a press conference on Thursday, in Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan.

“Turkey has done the same thing with the Armenians one hundred years ago,” Kochoyan added.

In his words, even though numerous Yezidis continue to remain captive in the Sinjar mountains, some were managed to be rescued.

“Midia-Shangal’ Yezidi National Union” NGO Board Chairman Amo Sharoyan, for his part, noted that the Yezidi armed detachments are preparing to take Sinjar back from the militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group.

Sharoyan added that a Yezidi delegation recently paid a visit to the U.S. Department of State and reached an agreement on receiving military and humanitarian assistance.

 

 

 

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