Yolveren

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Yolveren
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Yolveren (Turkey)
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Basic data
Province (il) : Batman
District ( ilçe ) : Batman
Coordinates : 37 ° 48 '  N , 41 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 37 ° 48 '5 "  N , 41 ° 16' 41"  E
Height : 809  m
Residents : 47 (2011)
Telephone code : (+90) 488
Postal code : 72000
License plate : 72
Template: Infobox Location in Turkey / Maintenance / District Without Inhabitants Or Area

Yolveren ( Kurmanji : Çinêrya or Çinerîya) is a jesidisches village in the southeast of Turkey . The village is located about 15 km southeast of Batman in the Batman county of the same name in the Batman Province . The place is located in Southeast Anatolia .

Temple in a Yazidi cemetery in Yolveren (Çinerya)

History and population

The original name of the village is Çinêrya or Çinerîya. The Yazidi villages were renamed through the Turkishization of geographical names in Turkey . Yolveren (Çinerya) is mostly an abandoned village today. The village had an exclusively Yazidi population.

On February 5, 2019, it became known that the Yazidi cemetery "Pîrê Zîrav" in the place was visited by grave robbers. The grave robbers suspected valuables in the graves and desecrated several Yezidi graves. The act likely occurred on February 2, 2019.

Gravestone in a Yazidi cemetery in Yolveren (Çinerya)

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Turkish Institute for Statistics. Accessed December 30, 2018 .
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  3. ↑ Ersoy Soydan: BATMAN YEZIDIS AND YEZIDIS ORAL TRADITION (BATMAN YEZİDİLERİ VE YEZİDİ SÖZLÜ KÜLTÜRÜ) . ( academia.edu [accessed December 30, 2018]).
  4. ^ Anatolic index. Accessed December 30, 2018 .
  5. ↑ ON FINAL SETTLEMENT PLACES AND POPULATION OF EZIDIS, AN ETHNO-RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY, IN BATMAN AND NEARBY VICINITY. (PDF) In: Turkish Studies. Accessed December 30, 2018 .
  6. ↑ COMING TO TERMS WITH FORCED MIGRATION: POST-DISPLACEMENT RESTITUTION OF CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS IN TURKEY. (PDF) August 2007, accessed December 30, 2018 (English).
  7. ↑ Batman Haberler Çağdaş Gazetesi: BU KADARINA DA PES! Retrieved February 18, 2019 (Turkish).
  8. ↑ Yaptıkları akılalmaz! İçine bile girmeye çalışmışlar. Retrieved February 18, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Batman'da Ezidi mezarı tahrip edildi, konu Meclis'e taşındı. In: Gazete Karınca. February 6, 2019, accessed February 18, 2019 (Turkish).