Khanke
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| Coordinates | 36 ° 47 ' N , 42 ° 48' E | ||
| Country |
 Iraq
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| Governorate | Dahuk | ||
| District | Semile | ||
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| height | 375 m | ||
Khanke (also Khanik or Khaneq , Kurmanji Xankê, Arabic خانك) is a Yazidi city in the Semile district in the Iraqi province of Dahuk . The city is located about 20 km southwest of Dohuk in the autonomous region of Kurdistan . The place is located in the demarcation zone between Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan that has existed since 1991/1992 and is on Kurdish administered territory. Khanke was a so-called model village for Yazidis and was created on the drawing board in the 1980s. For the settlement of the Yazidis other Yazidi villages were depopulated.
population
To the population Khankes mainly include Yazidis . Since 1999 it has been observed that the Yazidi population is being expelled and the Arab population is being settled.
history
The original village of Khanke was converted into a "model village" ( muǧammaʿāt ) in 1985 . By 1987 the residents of 14 Yazidi villages and some members of the Haweri tribe were expelled and resettled in the "model village" Khanke. In return, Arab tribes were settled in the original Yazidi villages.
After the mass exodus of the Yazidis from the Sinjar region in 2014, a refugee camp for the Yazidis was set up in Khanke . The refugee camp consists of tents, which were provided by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , among others . Many Yazidis found refuge in this camp, where they still live today. Over 80,000 Yazidi refugees from Sinjar are currently living in Khanke.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Irene Dulz: The Yezidi in Iraq: between "model village" and escape . LIT Verlag Münster, 2001, ISBN 978-3-8258-5704-2 ( google.de [accessed on December 2, 2018]).
- ↑ Iraq: The Youngest Refugee in Khanke. Retrieved December 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Iraq: Persecuted Yazidis - The Suffering of Women | World mirror. Accessed December 2, 2018 (German).