Garo Paylan, who is an Armenian from Turkey, wants Turkey to face its bloody past and recognize the Seyfo genocide committed against its non-Muslims citizens, living in the Ottoman Empire. However, Lawmakers from the ruling (AKP) party and the rest of the genocide denial members of parliament were verbally attacking when addressing the legislation body! He said: ‘I Call It Genocide; You Can Call It Whatever You Want’. Furthermore, he added: “ We were once 40 percent of the population. …
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Muslim Assyrians? Who are they? By Sabri Atman Many readers will wonder, who are these Assyrians? Moreover, aren’t all Assyrians Christian? Apparently not! The majority of Assyrians are Christians – some agnostic and some atheists as well. Now; however, we also have Muslim Assyrians that are proud of their Assyrian identity. Crypto- Assyrians, is a term to describe those Assyrians that are full-fledged ethnic Assyrians or those that of partial Assyrian origin; yet they feel obliged to hide their Assyrian …
For several decades the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and other leading Jewish American organizations (AIPAC, AJC, B’nai B’rith, and JINSA) have deliberately colluded with Turkey and Israel to defeat U.S. Congressional resolutions on the Christian Armenian Genocide and to diminish the factuality of that genocide. Yola Habif Johnston, a director at JINSA (Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs), once admitted that “the Jewish lobby has quite actively supported Turkey in their efforts to prevent the so-called Armenian genocide resolution from passing.” …
Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen: Only One hundred Years ago, unknown to most, two-thirds of the Assyrian population were massacred by the Ottoman Turks. While the Assyrian, Armenian and Greek genocide is an historical fact; Turkey still denies that it took places. This genocide is an event that the survivors will never forget. The wounds of this genocide are not healed yet. Turkey and their allies from the Kurdish tribes must not only acknowledge this crime that they committed, but then …
By Miryam A. Abraham Berlin (AINA) — By an overwhelming majority, the German parliament (Bundestag) passed a symbolic and long overdue resolution on Thursday, June 2, 2016, recognizing the 1915 massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman government as a genocide. In its main part, the resolution also explicitly acknowledges that Assyrians (also referred to as Syriacs, Chaldeans or Aramaic-speaking Christians) were affected by the deportations and massacres as well. The importance of this is that the German Empire was the …
Locarno. – Seyfo Center, The Assyrian Genocide Research Center will be holding another commemoration with a monument dedicated to the martyrs of the Assyrian genocide, which will be erected on June 18, 2016, at 11:00 AM, in Parco Della Pace, Locarno Switzerland. 101 black balloons that symbolize the 101 years Anniversary of the Assyrian genocide of 1915, shall be released in their honor. Swiss politicians, as well as representatives of the Assyrian organizations, will hold speeches. Today we witness again …