Yazidis in Germany

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| image_caption = Yazidi demonstration in front of the Brandenburg Gate and the Embassy of the United States in Berlin, Germany.

| total = from 60,000{{cite encyclopedia |first=Christine |last=Allison |date=2014-02-20 |access-date=October 16, 2014 |url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/yazidis-i-general-1 |title=Yazidis i: General |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Iranica |quote=There are probably 200,000–300,000 Yazidis worldwide.}}{{cite web |access-date=2008-03-31 |url=http://adherents.com/Na/Na_670.html#4286 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050424081847/http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_670.html#4286 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=April 24, 2005 |title=Yezidi |publisher=Adherents.com}} Cites estimates between 100,000 and 700,000 worldwide.{{cite web|url=http://www.dw.de/yazidis-rally-in-germany-against-is/a-17843457 |title=Yazidis rally in Germany against 'IS' |publisher=Deutsche Welle |access-date=2014-10-16}} to 100,000–120,000 {{cite news|last1=Jakob|first1=Christian|title=Jesiden in Deutschland: Das Trauma der Vorfahren|url=http://www.taz.de/!145610|access-date=10 September 2014|work=die Tageszeitung|ref=100.000 Jesiden leben in Deutschland.}}{{cite news|last1=Hür|first1=Kemal|title=Die Religion der Yeziden|url=http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/glaubensgemeinschaft-die-religion-der-yeziden.1278.de.html?dram:article_id=294819|access-date=17 August 2014|publisher=Deutschlandradio Kultur|ref=In Deutschland leben ca. 120.000Yeziden in verschiedenen Städten – hauptsächlich in den Bundesländern Nordrhein-Westfalen und Niedersachsen.}}

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Yazidis in Germany may refer to people born in or residing in Germany of Yazidi origin, an ethnic group{{Cite book|title=Uncertain refuge, dangerous return: Iraq's uprooted minorities|last1=Chapman|first1=Chris|last2=Taneja|first2=Preti|publisher=Minority Rights Group International|year=2009|pages=8}} or Kurdish group who are strictly endogamous.{{Cite book|title = The Yezidis: The History of a Community, Culture and Religion|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ql4BAwAAQBAJ|publisher = I.B.Tauris|date = 2014-12-23|isbn = 9780857720610|language = en|first = Birgül|last = Açikyildiz}}{{Cite web|title = Everything You Need to Know About the Yazidis|url = https://time.com/3091932/yazidi-iraq-isis-obama/|website = Time|access-date = 2016-02-07|first = Mirren|last = Gidda}}

There is a large Yazidi community in Germany, estimated to be numbering around 60,000 - 120,000 people. This makes the German Yazidi community one of the largest in the Yazidi diaspora.

Immigration history

Many Yazidis fled to Germany during the 1990s fearing religious persecution in Turkey. The Yazidi population of Germany was around 20,000 in 1998. Many Yazidi intellectuals also fled during this time and now play a prominent role in Yazidi diaspora affairs and maintain connections with Yazidis in Iraq.

Political activism

In August 2014, German Yazidis held protests against the Islamic State and called for an immediate end of the Genocide of Yazidis by ISIL. Between 5,000 and 10,000 people attended the demonstrations.{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/germany-1000s-protest-yazidi-persecution-iraq-160416354.html |title=Germany: 1000s protest Yazidi persecution in Iraq |publisher=Yahoo! News |access-date=2014-10-16}} Three commanders of the Yazidi militias who fought against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Iraq have lived for various years in Germany.{{Cite book|last=Schmiedinger|first=Thomas|title=Die Welt hat uns vergessen|publisher=Mandelbaum Verlag|date=June 2019|isbn=978385476-590-5|pages=102–103}}