The worldwide human rights organisations have accused the Turkish authorities of persecuting Yazidis dwelling alongside the borders of Turkey and Syria by imposing radical Islam on the minority inhabitants. According to the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP), Diyanet – the Bureau of Religious Affairs in Turkey – is constructing increasingly mosques in Yazidi villages in Turkey occupied Kurdish area of Afrin in Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava).
The worldwide human rights NGO stated that Turkey’s efforts to construct mosques in these Yazidi areas is an try to push Islamisation and to advertise a radical interpretation of Sunni Islam within the multi-religious area.
The STPI has accused Turkey’s Diyanet of disseminating its non secular views to native faculties in Germany via the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB), one among Germany’s largest radical Islamic organisations.
“Yazidi sources tell us about the construction of a mosque in Yazidi village of Shadere, south of Afrin-City. 45 Yazidi people still live there, but there were 450 before the Turkish occupation,” stated Kamal Sido, an Middle East knowledgeable with STPI.
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According to Sido, Turkey has begun to settle radical Muslims within the area after a lot of the minorities had been displaced. He added that Turkey usually carries out raids towards the indigenous Kurdish inhabitants. Sido stated that Diyanet determines what’s preached within the mosques and Afrin’s new Koran faculties.
“Even little girls often have to wear a headscarf. During the latest Gaza escalation, the mosques circulated hate speech against Israel and Jews,” he stated.
According to the STPI, DITIB is a radical Islamic organisation that helps Turkey’s persecution and added that the organisation had prolonged its help to Turkey’s 2018 navy offensive into Afrin. The DITIB mosques in Germany had prayed for the victory of the occupying military.
Kurds fashioned at the very least 96 per cent of the entire inhabitants of Afrin as soon as. However, following the Turkish occupation and its huge human rights violations towards the Kurds, most of them had been both lifeless or displaced. Currently, the Kurdish inhabitants varieties round 25 per cent of the area.
Afrin’s Kurds are predominantly average Sunni Muslims. At one level, 20,000 to 30,000 Yazidis lived in Afrin. They presently quantity just a few thousand.
“This means that Turkey is about to achieve one of its most important goals: to make Afrin Kurdish-free,” Sido stated.