In 2014 fighters tore into Kurdish Northern Iraq and committed a horrific genocide. IS took more than 7.000 people hostage, killing around 5.000. Captured women & girls have been subjected to sexual violence as an explicit IS tactic to break the dignity and the honour. Also because they believe if they rape the Yazidi women they will make them Muslim. Prof. Dr. Kizilhan is chief psychologist of Special-Quota Project. The project aims to bring 1.100 women & children who have been held hostage by IS to Germany for medical treatment.The refugee stories that Jan Ilhan Kizilhan shares are the tales of thousands of girls who are kidnapped, held captive and are raped by IS-soldiers.“To explain this situation is very difficult,” says Jan Ilhan Kizilhan, “because to explain we have to understand the hatred that lies beneath the terror of IS. If we look throughout history, we can see that there have always been minority groups that fall victim to genocide.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Jan Ilhan Kizilhan, studied psychology, law, sociology and oriental studies in for example Germany and the United States. Chief clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, hypnotherapist and trauma therapist. Teaching lecturer and supervisor in education and training, advisor for courts and international institutions. Head of Department Mental Health and Addiction at the Cooperative State University Baden-Württemberg. Medical and psychological head of the special quata of the state ministry, federal state of Baden-Württemberg, where bring 1.100 girls from Iraq and Syria, who were captured by the IS to Germany for treatment. Author of numerous books and professional articles, reviewer for several international journals.

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