Posted on 04/27/2017 7:34:24 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
14-year-old Siviyan Casim was killed in the Turkish airstrike on 25 April 2017 on Shingal, Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq.
A 14-year-old boy who was killed in Turkish airstrikes on Shingal (Sinjar), in northern Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, has been laid to rest.
Siviyan Casim was killed as at least 8 airstrikes, which Turkey said targeted Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) bases, struck the Yazidi homeland on Tuesday morning.
Mother kidnapped by IS
According to Kurdish Roj News agency, the boy’s father and brother joined the Shingal Resistance Units (YBS), affiliated to the PKK, after the Islamic State (IS) kidnapped the boy’s mother in the onslaught on the region in 2014.
Speaking to Roj News, Casim Nasir Hisiyan Qeyrani, the boy’s father reportedly said, “We will not give up on our rights and our land. Siviyan was only a child, but Turkey is targeting all Kurds.”
It is not known whether the boy was staying with his brother and father in a military area when the air raid occurred. Ezidi Press, relaying comments by Casim’s brother, told Kom News that the photo taken of the boy wearing military fatigues was during a YBS meeting and that he had never held a weapon nor been a member of the YBS.
Five peshmerga fighters and a Yazidi member of the YBS were also killed in the strikes.
Peshmerga Ministry Secretary-General: Turkey did not notify us
Turkish officials have said they informed the US, Russia and Kurdistan Region officials ahead of the airstrikes. However Peshmerga Ministry Secretary-General Jabar Yawar on Wednesday dismissed Turkey’s claim saying they had not been notified.
US military officials said Turkey had notified anti-IS coalition forces less than an a hour before the strikes and had not co-ordinated for the attack.
Peshmerga Ministry Spokesman Halgurd Hikmat and Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) officials blamed PKK presence for the airstrikes, calling on the group to withdraw from the area.
Kurdish parties condemn airstrikes as violation of sovereignty
Other prominent Kurdish parties and the Iraqi parliament condemned Ankara and called on the UN to take action against violation of sovereignty.
The PKK was credited with saving thousands of Yazidis in 2014, after IS jihadists displaced tens of thousands and kidnapped more than 3,000 women and children.
The group has argued that it has a limited force in the Shingal region and has trained more than a thousand Yazidi fighters from the local population as a self-defence militia.
Turkish officials have said they will not allow Shingal to become a second Qandil, referring to the PKK’s bases in Mount Qandil, and claimed that the group was conducting attacks from there.
Nothing about the 14 year old Ezidi boy who was killed. He was buried today.
But none of this seems to have changed Erdogan the Islamist's actions.
Syria/Turkey/Iraq Ping
14 year old victim buried.
What’s a Yazida, fossil?
Ezidi, Yazidi are same. Names there are transliterated. Spelled approximating sound in original language.
Here is a description.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazidi
Some Muslims, call them devil worshipers and kill them on sight. They are an exceedingly peaceful people.
Many Kurds say they are the origin of all Kurds.
In my opinion, the Kurds are more varied in origin than that, but most of them are probably descendant in some manner for them.
Many times groups have tried to kill them all. They claim the most recent attempt was number 72.
I know a few of them on the web. Ones I have met are pretty nice people. They are very private. They don’t recruit members to their faith. They frown on intermarriage with other groups.
Some are very light complected and have pale blue eyes (some blond hair). Others are darker skinned and red hair.
Erdogan is clearly leading a rising force of evil. He's stolen a referendum election. He's out to make himself dictator and with systematic oppression has been undoing Ataturk's secular democracy . Erdogan is turning Turkey back to brutal Islamic tyranny.
Absolutely correct.
Hey, don’t worry about Erdogan — It’s Assad who deserves a missile attack.
The Syrian civil war has evil on both sides. Since Assad is defending Christians I give him the edge. It won't be long until Erdogan goes after Christians. Right now it's Kurds and shoring up his dictatorship. We've not yet began to see the evil this man is going to do. You only have to look at Islam's long merciless history to see what is coming down the road.
Yes, good example. The eyes and hair are pretty common. So are the red heads.
At first, the Turks came for the Armenians
Now they’re coming for the Kurds.
The Germans are next in line for a persecution by the Turks.
Thanks for the information.
They sound like a tough group of people and the only ones that fought ISIS for a long time.
Yes, tough indeed. And the ones I know? Are really good earthy people.
All Kurds are not the same. There are regional variances. I know far more about those in Syria than the others.
Well, sounds like Erdogan has burned the bridge to EU membership by stealing the Referendum election and by insulting 1/2 of Europe by calling them Nazi’s!
Really stupid move on his part.
I believe that Turkey is dead in the water as a nation until Erdogan the Islamist is out of power.
Erdodan is on a roll. He’s on a roll making himself the new Assad of the Middle East.
Turkey is committing suicide with Erdogan.
Turkey cannot be dead in the water because it is a Nato member. Anytime it is attacked we will have to come to its defense.
It will be a real mess if Turkey decides to attack another Nato member.
Yes. Correct.
But if Turkey (NATO) attacks a non NATO country, we are NOT Obligated to help them.
And that is where we are.
We can only hope.
Yes, hope and pray for an end to this soon and a sane after action settlement.
Very good signs coming out this morning.
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