00:04Hundreds of Yazidis gathered in a formerly abandoned village in Turkey on Wednesday
00:09to celebrate the start of their new year.
00:12The biggest celebrations of Red Wednesday, or Karsama Sor,
00:15are usually held at the Lalesh Temple in northern Iraq.
00:19But Yazidi religious leaders said the celebrations there should not take place this year
00:24due to the risk created by the war in Iran.
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00:29Every year we have no idea of the government to fix it.
00:34Every year we have the government to fix it.
00:37This year we have a good place here.
00:41We are not going to watch this video in Germany.
00:44We have a good day and we have a good day.
00:48We have a good day.
00:59Red Wednesday symbolizes the arrival of spring and nature's awakening, according to the Yazidi belief.
01:20Everyone is happy, and we are here in the village, and we are here in the village.
01:32Those gathered in Magarakoy tied cloths to trees to make wishes, visited sacred structures that are built there, prayed and
01:40danced.
01:41The Yazidi village was abandoned for years due to the fighting between the Kurdistan Workers' Party militants and the Turkish
01:48military.
01:48A call by PKK leader Abdullah Okolan last year for the militant group to disband has raised the hopes of
01:56the Yazidi diaspora, who mostly live in Germany, to return to Turkey.
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