Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Yazidis sun haɗu da Ottomans a karo na farko a farkon karni na 16 kuma sun rayu a matsayin ƙungiyoyi masu zaman kansu a ƙarƙashin Daular Ottoman. Ottomans sun ci yankunan Kurdawa kuma sun sanya gwamnonin kansu a Diyarbekir, Urfa, Shingal da Mosul. A shekara ta 1516, Sultan Selim the Grim ya kaddamar da wani
mamaye Syria, kama Aleppo da Damascus daga Mamluks na Masar. Shugaban Kurdawa a Aleppo shi ne Qasim Beg, ya daɗe yana rikici da Mamluks waɗanda ke son sanya Sheikh Izz ed-Din, Yezidi, a madadinsa. Duk da cewa Qasim Beg ya girmama Sultan, Sheikh Izz ed-Din har yanzu ya sami damar sanya kansa a matsayin Sarkin Kurdawa bayan ya shawo kan gwamnonin Ottoman na gida su kashe Qasim Beg saboda cin amanar kasa. Koyaya, saboda Sheikh Izz ed-Din bai bar magada ba bayan mutuwarsa, an mayar da taken ga dangin Qasim Beg.