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Armavir, Armenia<\/em>\u00a0\u00a9 Onnik James Krikorian 1998<\/em><\/p>\n

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When Aziz Tamoyan sits behind his desk in the cramped and dilapidated room that serves as his office in the Armenian capital, he says that he does so as president of the country\u2019s largest ethnic minority, the Yezidis.<\/p>\n

Pointing at the ha<\/span>ndmade posters stuck on the wall to one side of his cluttered desk, Tamoyan reads aloud the slogan that also serves as the motto for his newspaper. \u201cMy nationality is Yezidi, my language is Yezideren, and my religion is Sharfadin,\u201d he proclaims, opening a copy of Yezdikhana to reveal the results of the last census conducted in Armenia three years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are 40,620 Yezidis and 1,519 Kurds living in Armenia,\u201d he continues. \u201cThese are the official figures from the census and that should be all that you need to know. The Yezidis have no connection with the Kurds and there are no Muslim Kurds in Armenia. According to the census, nobody speaks Kurdish in Armenia.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Philip Kreyenbroek, head of Iranian studies at the University of Goettingen in Germany and a leading specialist on the Kurds and the Yezidis of Turkey and northern Iraq, disagrees.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Yezidi religious and cultural tradition is deeply rooted in Kurdish culture and almost all Yezidi sacred texts are in Kurdish,\u201dhe says. \u201cThe language all Yezidi communities have in common is Kurdish and most consider themselves to be Kurds, although often with some reservations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Yezidis in the western Aragatsotn region of Armenia have taken a dim view of government efforts, supported by the UN children\u2019s agency, UNICEF, to bolster minority education in the republic.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of September, at an event staged in the Yezidi village of Alagyaz, government officials said that new textbooks in minority languages would be distributed to schools in minority-populated villages, while UNICEF said it would provide stationary and other supplies.<\/p>\n

Less than a month later, however, Yezidis in Alagyaz and ten surrounding villages were complaining. Their language is the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish, but the books funded and provided by the government were instead written in Ezdiki. While the latter is still Kurdish by another name, the alphabet chosen for publication was in the unaccustomed Cyrillic alphabet instead of the more usual Latin or Arabic scripts.<\/p>\n

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Shamiram, Armenia<\/em>\u00a0\u00a9 Onnik James Krikorian 2005<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sister of a Yezidi killed fighting for the PKK in Turkey stands in front of his picture in Alagyaz, Armenia\u00a0\u00a9 Onnik James Krikorian 1998<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00b61. (S) PKK activities in Armenia seem thus far to be fairly low-level, though Armenia\u2019s Yezidi community \u2014 an ethnic minority related to Kurds by blood and language \u2014 may be receptive to PKK outreach. Among other things, we have heard reports that the PKK sends money to some Armenian Yezidi and that there are links between Yezidi communities in Armenia and Kurdish militant groups in Turkey. We have also heard that the Armenian government has made lukewarm attempts to hush a freelance journalist who reports extensively on the Yezidi and their affiliations with Kurdish militants. We believe many of these reports to be credible. END SUMMARY. \u00b6<\/p>\n

2. (S) We have undertaken to expand our knowledge of the Kurdish-related Yezidi community in Armenia, and the extent of any ties or sympathies to the PKK terrorist group. The Yezidi are closely related to Kurds; the main difference between the two cultures is religious. While most Kurds are Muslim, the Yezidi practice a distinct religion, rooted in Zoroastrianism, which forbids eating lettuce and wearing the color blue. Some Armenian Yezidi refuse to acknowledge that they speak Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish), insisting instead that they speak \u201cYezidiki,\u201d which they say is a separate language. (NOTE: The Yezidi clearly speak Kurmanji. Any differences between Kurmanji and the language spoken in Yezidi villages are small, regional variations. END NOTE.)<\/p>\n

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AN INTERVIEW WITH GARNIK ASATRIAN<\/p>\n

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Professor Garnik Asatrian is the Head of the Faculty of Iranian Studies at Yerevan State University. Born in Tehran in 1953, he moved to Yerevan in 1968. He has been prolific in his research into Kurdish tribal and linguistic tradition, and instrumental in the establishment of contemporary Kurdish academic study.<\/p>\n

Conducted 8 Jun<\/em>e 1998<\/em><\/p>\n

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AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. KARLENE CHACHANI<\/p>\n

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Dr. Karlene Chachani is a Yezidi living in Yerevan, Armenia. He is President of the Department of the Kurdish Writers of the Writers’ Union of Armenia, and Chief Editor of “Friendship” – an Armenian-Kurdish political Journal.<\/p>\n

Conducted 9 June<\/em>\u00a01998<\/em><\/p>\n

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AN INTERVIEW WITH AZIZ TAMOYAN<\/p>\n

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Aziz Tamoyan is the President of the National Union of Yezidi in Armenia and part of field research undertaken in 1998 on the Yezidi minority within the Republic of Armenia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Conducted 11 Jun<\/em>e 1998<\/em><\/p>\n

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AN INTERVIEW WITH MAHIR WELAT<\/p>\n

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Mahir Welat is the official representative of the National Liberation Front of Kurdistan (ERNK) and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to Moscow and the former Soviet Union. He is also a member of the ruling Central Committee of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Conducted 11 Jun<\/em>e 1998<\/em><\/p>\n

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AN INTERVIEW WITH AMARIK SARDARIAN<\/p>\n

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Amarik Sardarian is the Yezidi editor of the Kurdish newspaper, “Riya Taza”. “Riya Taza” is one of the oldest Kurdish newspapers in the world and is based in Yerevan, Armenia.<\/p>\n

Conducted 12 June<\/em>\u00a01998<\/em><\/p>\n

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AN INTERVIEW WITH SABRI KASH<\/p>\n

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Sabri Kash is the Representative of the PKK and ERNK in Armenia and the Caucasus. He was interviewed during festivities celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Kurdistan Workers Party [PKK] organised by the Yezidi [Kurdish] community in Armenia, and staged at the Russian Theatre in Yerevan.<\/p>\n

Conducted 1 December<\/em>\u00a01998<\/em><\/p>\n

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AN INTERVIEW WITH GEGHAM MANUKYAN<\/p>\n

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Gegham Manukyan is a member of the Central Committee of the Dashnaktsutiune, Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF, HHD) in the Republic of Armenia. He was interviewed during festivities celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Kurdistan Workers Party [PKK] organised by the Yezidi [Kurdish] community in Armenia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Conducted 27 November<\/em> 1998<\/em><\/p>\n

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AN INTERVIEW WITH HEYDAR ALI<\/p>\n

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Heydar Ali is the Caucasus Representative of the People’s Congress of Kurdistan (Kongra-Gel). This interview was conducted at the office of the Kurdistan Committee in Yerevan.<\/p>\n

Conducted 24\u00a0August\u00a0<\/i>1998<\/em><\/p>\n

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AN INTERVIEW WITH AMARIK SARDAR<\/p>\n

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Amarik Sardar is the Yezidi editor of Riya Taza, the oldest surviving Kurdish newspaper in the world. This interview was held in the Riya Taza office in Yerevan on 25 August 2004 and is part of a follow-up series of interviews to work on the division within the Yezidi minority in Armenia conducted during June 1998.<\/p>\n

Conducted 25 August<\/em>\u00a02004<\/em><\/p>\n

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AN INTERVIEW WITH HRANUSH KHARATYAN<\/p>\n

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Hranush Kharatyan is the Head of the Department of National Minorities and Religious Affairs in the Armenian Government. This interview was held in Yerevan on 6 September 2004 and is part of a follow-up series of interviews to work on the division within the Yezidi minority in Armenia conducted during June 1998.<\/p>\n

Conducted 6 September<\/em>\u00a02004<\/em><\/p>\n

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AN INTERVIEW WITH AZIZ TAMOYAN<\/p>\n

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Hranush Kharatyan is the Head of the Department of National Minorities and Religious Affairs in the Armenian Government. This interview was held in Yerevan on 6 September 2004 and is part of a follow-up series of interviews to work on the division within the Yezidi minority in Armenia conducted during June 1998.<\/p>\n

Conducted 13 September<\/em>\u00a02004<\/em><\/p>\n

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AN INTERVIEW WITH ROSTOM ATASHOV<\/p>\n

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Rostom Atashov was born in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1963 and is the President of the `Union of Yazidis of Georgia’ NGO, the larger of two Kurdish organizations in Georgia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Conducted 25 September 2006<\/em><\/p>\n

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AN INTERVIEW WITH HASAN TAMOYAN<\/p>\n

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Hasan Tamoyan is Deputy President of the National Union of Yezidis, member of the National Minority Council, and Head of Yezidi language programs on Armenian Public Radio.<\/p>\n

Conducted 9 October<\/em>\u00a02006<\/em><\/p>\n

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INTERVIEWS AT NATIONAL MINORITIES CENTRE<\/p>\n

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These interviews form part of research on the division within Armenia’s Yezidi community regarding identity and reports that some Yezidi schools are refusing to accept new school text books printed in Cyrillic and a language recognized by the Armenian Government as `Yezideren’ or `Ezdiki.’<\/p>\n

Conducted 11 October<\/em>\u00a02006<\/em><\/p>\n

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ACADEMICS ON CULTURAL TRADITIONS OF THE YEZIDIS<\/p>\n

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Interviews with Dr. Christine Allison, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), and Naro Zagros, PhD student, University of York.<\/p>\n

Conducted 24 October 2006<\/em><\/p>\n

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