{"id":503,"date":"2020-03-14T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nadiacavner.com\/?p=503"},"modified":"2024-05-31T22:20:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T22:20:53","slug":"little-talked-about-ethnic-cleansing-is-happening-in-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nadiacavner.com\/?p=503","title":{"rendered":"Little-talked-about Ethnic Cleansing is Happening in Middle\u00a0East"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For Nadia Cavner, a long-time philanthropist and activist, the Middle East is a region close to her heart, and the freedom of the persecuted people who live there remains the primary focus of her work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This topic does not receive much attention in U.S. news, but there is an ethnic cleansing happening in Northern Iraq today, and it has been happening for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the middle of 2019, more than 300,000 Yazidi people have been displaced from their homes in Syria and have not been able to return due to the repeated and constant airstrikes and attacks from Turkish fighters. These attacks primarily take place in the Sinjar District of northern Iraq, which surrounds Mount Sinjar and is now \u201chome\u201d to thousands of Yazidis and members of the Yazidi Shingal Protection Units (YBS), a place where Turkey knows Iraq will effectively turn a blind eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Turkey considers the YBS close affiliates of the People\u2019s Protection Units in Syria or the Kurdistan Workers Party (groups they consider to be terrorist organizations), there has never been a documented attack from the YBS, nor has there been any implication of future attacks. Nevertheless, Turkey continues to use this as the foundation of their attacks on innocent lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are a few facts, originally shared by The Jerusalem Post, that can help bring you up to speed on what exactly has been happening:<\/p>\n\n\n\n