Name: Sheikh Khartou
Nickname: Baba Sheikh
Father name: Sheikh Haji
Birth year: 1933
Date of death: 1-10-2020
Place of birth: Sheikhan
Place of death: Erbil
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He is Sheikh Kharto Haji Ismail, born in Sheikhan district in 1933. Sheikh Kharto Haji Ismail is from the dynasty of Sheikh Fakhrudin Adia…. He sat on the Yazidi holy carpet in 1995 located in the Lalish al-Nurani temple.
And he became Baba Sheikh since 1995 and the supreme religious reference for the Yazidi religion in Iraq and the world, Baba Sheikh Khuto. He has six sons and three daughters. Baba Sheikh has been suffering and battling kidney disease for years. It is worth noting that he met the Pope of the Vatican in Rome and conveyed through it the suffering of the people of the Yazidi religion to the world and what happened to yezidi people through the History,
Shex Khatou or Shex Kharto moved to the mercy of God in the age of eighty seven on 1-10-2020 in the city of Erbil, the capital of southern Kurdistan and Buried in Sheikhan and mercy on his pure soul and may God make his place paradise , Thousands of people from all religions attended the burial ceremonies of Baba Sheikh. There are some names of the Yazidi sheikhs who sat on the sacred carpet through History and they are Sheikh Fakhr, Sheikh Eido, Sheikh Meshal, Sheikh Khmeir, Sheikh Rashka, Sheikh Nasser, Sheikh Hajji, Sheikh Ali, Sheikh Suleiman, Sheikh Ismail..Sheikh Hajji, Sheikh Nasser, Sheikh Hajji Ismail, Sheikh Elias and Sheikh Khato and the last of them and The one who is currently sitting on the Yazidi holy carpet is Sheikh Ali Elias.[1]