1935 Yazidi revolt

Date	October 1935
Location	Sinjar Mountains, Kingdom of Iraq
Result	Revolt suppressed
Territorial changes	Sinjar Mountains put under military control

Belligerents

Kingdom of Iraq

Yazidi tribes

Commanders and leaders

Yasin al-Hashimi

Bakr Sidqi

No centralized leadership

Casualties and losses

More than 200 villagers were killed^[1]^[2]^[3]
11 villages were destroyed^[4]

The 1935 Yazidi revolt took place in Iraq in October 1935.^[1] The Iraqi government, under Yasin al-Hashimi, crushed a revolt by the Yazidi people of Sinjar Mountains against the imposition of conscription.^[1]^[2] The Iraqi army, led by Bakr Sidqi, reportedly killed over 200 Yazidi and imposed martial law throughout the region.^[1] Parallel revolts opposing conscription also broke out that year in the northern (Kurdish populated) and mid-Euphrates (majorly Shia populated) regions of Iraq.

The Yazidis of Jabal Shingal constituted the majority of Iraqi Yazidi population - the third largest non-Muslim minority within the kingdom.^[2] In 1939, the region of Jabal Shingal was once again put under military control, together with the Shekhan District.

References

1 2 3 4 dtic.mil
1 2 3 Fuccaro, Nelinda. "Ethnicity, State Formation, and Conscription in Postcolonial Iraq: The Case of the Yazidi Kurds of Jabal Sinjar". International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol. 29, No. 4 (Nov., 1997), pp. 559-580. JSTOR.
↑ "1935 Yazidi revolt (oct 9, 1935 – oct 20, 1935) (Timeline)". time.graphics. Retrieved 2025-09-01.
↑ "Creating Iraq's Military State | History Today". www.historytoday.com. Retrieved 2025-09-01.

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