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Êzidîs celebrate "Çarşema Sor" (Red Wednesday) today (April 20).
Çarşema Sor is the day Êzidîs believe when the world was fermented by God and life on earth started and is celebrated on the first Wednesday after April 13 every year.
Marking the first day of the year and believed to usher in spring, "Çarşema Sor" symbolizes greater goodness and heralds revival and good days.
The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) released a statement marking the day.
"Because of their language, culture, identity and belief, Êzidîs were massacred 73 times, the last of which was in Shengal. While the 73rd one took place before the eyes of the whole world, the fate of thousands of women and children held captive by ISIS gangs since 2014, when the genocide took place, is still uncertain," said the statement by Tülay Hatimoğlulları, the party's deputy chair responsible for the Commission of Peoples and Beliefs.
"We hope that Çarsema Sor Feast, which represents absolute goodness for Êzidîs, will herald the liberation of Êzidî women and children and the freedom of the Êzidî people.
"Cejna pîroz Çarşema Sor ya Gelê Êzidî pîroz be!" (EMK/VK)
