By Carmen Morad (AINA) — Sabri Atman, the founder, and the director of the Assyrian Genocide and Research Center, was invited to attend the 103rd Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide Remembrance at the California State Assembly in Sacramento California on April 23, 2018. Assembly Joint Resolution No. 37 was introduced by Assembly Member Friedman and coauthored with Assembly Member Nazarian. Related: The Assyrian Genocide The Turkish genocide claimed the lives of 750,000 Assyrians (75%), 1 million Greeks and 1.5 million Armenians. AJR 37 designates …
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The full text of the letter follows: To President of the United States of America …
Assyrians and Two World Wars Translated by Raman Michael from the book Aturayi w-tre plashi tiwilayeh (Assyrians and Two World Wars), by Yacoub Bar Malik Ismael of Upper Tyar; published by Sita Sapreta d-Alaymi Aturayi (Assyrian Students’ Literary Committee); Tehran, 1964. An account of the invitation of His Holiness the Patriarch Mar Binyamin by Ismael Agha (Simku) in the town of Kuhnashahir, in the district of Salamast, for the union and alliance of Assyrians with the Kurds. This historical account and the murder …
By Ann-Margret (Maggie) Yonan William Saroyan was an award-winning American writer and play-write whose books and plays have been translated in nearly every major language. Most recently, a group of Armenian publishers, (Ohannes Kilicdagi, Aziz Gokdemir, and Arman Artuc, “Aras Publishing”) in Istanbul Turkey, published one of his most famous short stories, Seventy Thousand Assyrians, in Turkish, called Yetmish Bin Suryani. This is one of the most important achievements in the 21 st century for Saroyan’s legacy and the Assyrian and …
By Sabri Atman (AINA) — When speaking about the Ottoman Empire and Turkey today, it is not their contribution to civilization that comes to mind. Instead, it is human rights violations, confiscation of land and property, genocide and genocide denials that are most frequently discussed in the public discourse. Today’s Turkey is still far from being ruled by democratic principles. Thousands of journalists, human rights activists, and opponents of the government are in jail or in exile. Osman Kavala is …
Dear Friends, As many of you know, Seyfo Center has been working diligently and tirelessly towards the international recognition of the Genocide and ethnic cleansing committed against the Assyrians (also known as the Syriacs and Chaldeans), which is still going on. In our attempt to raise awareness for the Assyrian genocide, we have been actively working in several fields: We have a large pool of sources and provides research assistance to scholars, writers, journalists, filmmakers and government agencies. We document …