Pietro Kuciukian
At the beginning of the 20th century, Sindjar belonged to the kaza of
Mosul, and it was the only place in the whole Ottoman Empire where the
Armenians were accepted and protected. Fierce mountain people, strenuous
defenders of their independence, those people inhabited the Sindjar
mountain, isolated amidst the desert of Mesopotamia. Over a half of its
dwellers, nearly 20,000 were yezidis.
