Would-be tourist Duezen Tekkal from Germany turns war correspondent when search for Yazidi roots exposes Genocide

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NEW YORK — In 2012, Duezen Tekkal was a freelance journalist living in Hanover, Germany. One winter evening, as the snow fell gently outside, Tekkal sat around the dinner table with her family and made an announcement: She and her father planned to travel to Iraq. Tekkal, a German-Yazidi, wished to explore her family's roots with….repubhubembed{display:none;}