In this case he quotes from a ‘Russian’ article which is a spin off of the recently re-launched Azeri/Turkish propaganda effort trying to connect NK to PKK.

The first shot in that campaign that I am aware was the comment by Yusuf Halacoglu a few months ago that PKK leaders were really Armenian.

When Erdogan was in DC last month he dropped a line that PKK was not an ethnic issue but one of terrorism, and there were Kurds, Armenians, and others in “terrorist organizations.”

I’m not sure if that was a conscious or unconscious effort to link Armenians to PKK by Erdogan, but it was heard and quickly followed by an Azeri-initiated article in Zaman newspaper which suggested that PKK was moving to NK.

That was followed by more Azeri articles, including the one in a Russian cite, tying in Tamoyan and the Yezidis and Serge.

So now this comment by Mr. Goble. Again not sure if it’s malicious or simply irresponsible.

The Yazidi (also Yezidi, Kurdish: Êzidî, Arabic: يزيدي or ايزدي) are adherents of the smallest of the three branches of Yazdânism, a Middle Eastern religion with ancient Indo-European roots. Yazidis are primarily ethnic Kurds, and most live in the Mosul region of northern Iraq. There are traditional communities in Transcaucasia, Turkey, and Syria, but these have declined since the 1990s, their members emigrating to Europe, especially to Germany.[3] The term Dasni or Dasny is used by the Yazidis as a self-designation.

Yazidis make up an important Iraqi minority community. Estimates of the size of the Iraqi communities vary significantly, between 70,000 and 500,000. The Georgian community has declined significantly (decreasing from 30,000 to 5,000 during the 1990s), while communities in Armenia have been more stable (some 40,000 according to 2001 census). In Russia, the Yazidi population totals 31,273 (2002 census). In Syria, there are two main groupings, in the Jazira and the Kurd Daege, accounting for about 15,000 people. In Turkey, there are now just a very small remnant in some villages south-east of Diyarbakir, remnants of a community of some 80,000 in 1970 (declined to 23,000 in 1985 and to 377 people in 2007[citation needed]).

The Yazidi number around 200,000 to 300,000 individuals in total, but estimates vary on their population size, partially due to the Yazidi tradition of secrecy when asked about one’s religious beliefs. Lower estimates are around 100,000, and high estimates around 700,000. Expatriate Yazidi are concentrated in Germany, numbering between 20,000 and 40,000, mainly in Niedersachsen and Nordrhein-Westfalen, most of them from Turkey. A much smaller diaspora community is found in the Netherlands. Very small groups are also found in Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, France, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the US, Canada and Australia, probably totalling to below 5,000 people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazidi

Yezidis is a wrong word, to call the people who follow the first kurdish religion! What you guys taking about is (Ezidis) which is tortaly different things, Yezidis is name of a group that follow (YEZID SON OF MA’AAUEY) the Chaliphe of the (MOSLIMS).

thanks,
sarkan