Armenia’s Yezidi launched a rally in front of UN Office in Yerevan to protest oppression of their compatriots by Iraqi Kurds.

The protesters addressed a letter to UN, urging international community to support Iraq’s Yezidi.

The Yezidi are members of a Kurdish religion with ancient Indo-Iranian roots. They are primarily a Kurdish-speaking people living in the Mosul region of northern Iraq, with additional communities in Armenia, Turkey, and Syria in decline since the 1990s – their members emigrating to Europe, especially to Germany.