By Abdulmesih BarAbraham (AINA) — An article titled The Year of the Sword – The Assyro-Chaldean Genocide under the Ottoman Empire (1915-1918) appeared in the history section of the March-April issue (no. 103) of the French magazine Diplomatie affaires stratégiques et relations internationales. The article was authored by Joseph Yacoub, honorary professor in political science at the Catholic University of Lyon. Prof. Yacoub is an Assyrian (also known as Chaldean and Syriac). He was the first chairholder of UNESCO’s ‘Memory, cultures and interculturality’, …
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By Terry.Stavridis The document attached provides an excellent and succinct overview of Assyrian history from 1914-1944.[1] There are undoubtedly important themes that emerge in the reading of this document from the National Archives of Australia collection. These are: The Assyrians were driven out from their ancestral lands in the Hakkiari mountains of Eastern Turkey and ended up in the Urmia district of Persia during the First World War. The collapse of Tsarist Russia in 1917 did not assist the Assyrian …
Evet, başardık! Bugün, 3 Mart 2020 tarihinde, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri Arizona Eyaleti oybirliğiyle sunulan HCR 2006 kodundaki Asur (Süryani) Soykırım önergesini kabul etti. Asur soykırımı Seyfo tasarısı, Parlamento temsilcileri Nancy Barto (R), Jennifer Jermaine (D) ve Frank Carroll (R) tarafından önerildi. SEYFO Center kurumu olarak, aylardır yılmadan, yorulmadan ismi geçen temsilcilerle çalıştık. Bilgiler sunduk ve talepte bulunduk. Bunun karşılığını gördük. Hepsine desteklerinden dolayı teşekür ederiz. Bu karar Arizona Eyaleti olmak üzere Amerika ve dünyadaki bütün halkımıza armağan ediyoruz. Hayırlı olsun! …
To our dear friends in Arizona and abroad—we did it! Today, March 3rd, 2020 the Arizona House of Representatives in a unanimous vote passed the HCR 2006 Assyrian Genocide: Remembrance Day. This resolution was introduced by Representative Nancy Barto (R) and brought to fruition by The Assyrian Genocide Research Center (Seyfo Center). HCR 2006 Assyrian Genocide: Remembrance Day was also co-sponsored by Representatives Jennifer Jermaine (D) and Frank Carroll (R). SEYFO Center is forever thankful to these amazing representatives for their courage and compassion! …
For too long, Turkey bullied America into silence. Not anymore. By Samantha Power On Tuesday, by a vote of 405 to 11, the House of Representatives defied the Turkish government’s intimidation and, for the first time in 35 years, passed a resolution that recognized the Armenian genocide. In acknowledging the Ottoman Empire’s killing of more than one million Armenians as “genocide,” the House follows more than two dozen countries and 49 of 50 states. This resolution matters hugely to Armenian-Americans. But it …
Mardin /Nusaybin’e bağlı Mor Yakup kilisesi Rahibi Sefer (Resamet ismi Aho) Bileçen ve Üçköy (Arkah) ‘ın yeni seçilen muhtarı Joseph Yar ve Musa Taştekin isimli Süryani ile birlikte toplamda 10 kişi, 9 Ocak 2020 günü ev baskınlarıyla Nusaybin’de önce gözaltına alındı. Ardından da dosyaya gizlilik kararı getirilmişti. 10 Ocak 2020 günü Mardin Adliyesinde Nöbetçi Sulh ceza Hâkimliğince “Örgüte yardım ve yataklık etmek” iddiasıyla Rahip Sefer Bileçen tutuklandı. Yaşlı Süryani Musa Taştekin ile birlikte 3 kişi Adli kontrol şartıyla serbest bırakıldı. Muhtar …
The House voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to formally recognize the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocide and denounce it as a matter of American foreign policy, a symbolic vindication for the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek diaspora made possible by a new torrent of bipartisan furor at Turkey. The passage of the legislation, by a 405-to-11 vote. The resolution, which is not legally binding, marked the first time in 35 years that either chamber of Congress considered as genocide the mass killings of …