The persecution of Yazidis by Muslims has been ongoing since at least the 15th century.[1] Yazidis are an endogamous and mostly Kurmanji-speaking[2] minority, indigenous to Upper Mesopotamia.[3] The Yazidi religion is regarded as devil worship by Islamists.[4] Yazidis have been persecuted by Kurdish tribes since the 15th century, and by the Ottoman Empire from the 17th to the 20th centuries.[5] After the 2014 Sinjar massacre of thousands of Yazidis by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Yazidis still face violence from the Turkish Armed Forces and its ally the Syrian National Army, as well as discrimination from the Kurdistan Regional Government.