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Shafaq News- Baghdad
Iraqi Turkmen Front parliamentary bloc leader Ersat
Salihi called on Saturday for amendments to the Yazidi Survivors Law to extend
its protections to Turkmen, Shabak, Christian, and other children abducted or
abused by ISIS.
Salihi argued that the current law excludes many
Turkmen children taken from Tal Afar, including girls and boys who were under
18 at the time. He urged Parliament’s leadership and political blocs to place a
presidency-proposed amendment on the legislative agenda.
ISIS captured Tal Afar on June 15, 2014, shortly after
seizing Mosul and before its assault on Sinjar, abducting large numbers of
Turkmen women and children, some of whom remain missing, he noted.
The group overran Sinjar in August that year, killing
and abducting an estimated 12,000 Yazidis in atrocities internationally
recognized as genocide. Nearly 2,900 remained missing as of August 2025.
About the Law
Parliament passed Yazidi Survivors Law No. 8 of 2021
to provide reparations for victims of ISIS atrocities and recognize crimes
against Yazidis, Turkmen, Christians, and Shabaks as genocide and crimes
against humanity.
Article 2 covers Yazidi children abducted before
turning 18, as well as women and girls from the Turkmen, Christian, and Shabak
communities subjected to specified crimes. The proposed change would broaden
the child provision to include other affected communities.
The law provides financial compensation,
rehabilitation, education, and employment support and mandates efforts to
locate missing members of the four communities.