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HARDtalk: Jan Kizilhan, Psychologist and Trauma Therapist

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Jan Kizilhan, Psychologist and Trauma Therapist

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Yazidi Kurd Jan Kizilhan has helped over a thousand women to escape persecution in Iraq.

Zeinab Badawi speaks to psychologist Jan Kizilhan, a Yazidi Kurd living in Germany who has helped bring over a thousand persecuted women from Iraq to Europe to begin a new life.

HARDtalk's Zeinab Badawi speaks to psychologist Jan Kizilhan, a Yazidi Kurd living in Germany who has helped bring over a thousand Yazidi women and girls from camps in Iraq to Germany to start a new life. The so-called Islamic State may be coming under pressure in both Syria and Iraq, but accounts are still emerging of atrocities carried out by them. 

The minority Yazidi community are one of the most persecuted groups of people in the Middle East. Living mostly in northern Iraq, they have been killed, forced to convert to Islam and the women and girls have been held in sexual slavery. How does he decide who should stay and who should go?

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