By Nurcan Baysal A photograph on the Voice of America website last month showed Armenians in Diyarbakır, my hometown, celebrating Easter in a café, as they still had no access to their church. The curfew put in place by Turkish authorities in December 2015 remains in effect in the 6 districts of Sur, the ancient centre of Diyarbakır, where the Surp Giragos Armenian Church is located. During the clashes between young Kurdish insurgents and the Turkish state, military curfews were declared …
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By Sabri Atman The Turkish Republic, as the lawful successor of the Ottoman Empire, has a policy of denial and refuses to acknowledge the genocide despite overwhelming evidence. The Republic of Turkey was founded on the genocide of 1915 and even after 104 years the genocidal mentality remains. President Erdogan maintains, “Muslims cannot commit genocide.” During the years of World War I more than half of the Assyrian population in the Ottoman Empire was systematically murdered. The majority of those …
GLENDALE – The Armenian Genocide Committee is proud to announce the solidarity and participation of 49 coalition partners for the April 24 March for Justice in commemoration of the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and the demand for accountability by the Turkish government. “The AGC welcomes the broad-based support it has received from its coalition partners to March for and demand universal justice for the Armenian Genocide. Our coalition partners have consistently expressed their solidarity by actively working with us …
Bradley Martin is a Senior Fellow with the news and public policy group Haym Salomon Center and Deputy Editor for the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research. He is a graduate of Concordia University, where he completed his MA in Judaic Studies after having completed a double BA in Specialization History and Judaic Studies. Brad’s work has been published in a number of academic journals, which include publications put forth by Concordia University, McGill University and the University of Cambridge. His byline can …
1915 tarihi; Ermeni, Süryani ve Pontus Rumlar için bitmek bilmeyen bir cehennemin ve yaraları hala kanayan halkların trajedisidir. 1915’in üzerinden tam 103 yıl geçti. Bu gün canlı tanıklıklar ve ataları Ermeni, Süryani, Rum olan 3. Kuşak katliam mağduru torunların açıklamalarında, tanık olduğumuz realite, bu ülkede 1915’de ne kadar zulüm ve vahşet yapıldığının acı bir göstergesidir. Coğrafya kaderdir bizim ülkemizde. Coğrafyası kaderi ” olanların kederi olunca; kederlerinden acıdan başka bir şey damıtamıyorlar. Aşağıda Papaz Abraham Garis’den yaptığım alıntıda göreceğimiz gibi 1915 …
Zeynep Tozduman: BU GÜN 6-7 EYLÜL, ÜLKEMİZDE KADIN BEDENİNE YAPILAN SOYKIRIMA HAYIR GÜNÜ Neredeyse 365 güne denk düşen utançlarımız, acılarımız var bizim. Utançlı yaşıyoruz bu ülkede. O kadar çok karanlık ve kirli tarihimiz var ki.. 6-7 Eylül olaylarının üzerinden tam 62 yıl geçti. 62 yılda değişen hiç bir şey yok. Hesap sorulmayan her utanç hep bir yenisini doğurdu bu ülkede. Cellatlar her gün bir yenisini yazmaktan yorulmadı, Rumlar, Ermeniler, Süryaniler, Ezidiler, Kızılbaşlar küllerinden yeniden doğmakta .. Çünkü bu toprakların en …
By Sabri Atman When after a long illness, the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I died on March 21, 2014, the Holy Synod elected Mor Ignatius Aphrem II as Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch. This was during an uncertain and unstable period in our people’s lives for several reasons. The civil war in Syria was costing the lives of hundreds of thousands and at the same time Iraqi Assyrians and other Christians were facing genocide, and once …