ZHAMANAK: 30,000 YEZIDIS READY TO SETTLE IN ARMENIA
09:46 * 16.09.14
The Yezidi refugees of northern Iraq are said to have expressed
readiness to settle in Armenia.
Speaking to the paper, Boris Murazi, the president of an Armenia-based
association of Yezidis, said around 30,000 of them, who are now in
Turkey, are not absolutely sure that they will not be subjected to
persecutions. “It [Turkey] will protect the interests of Muslims and
Islamist extremists when necessary, as it did in 1974 in relation to
the Yezidis of Batman,” he was uoted as saying.
Armenian News – Tert.am
From: Baghdasarian