On January 16th, 2013, there was a meeting held between several Assyrian organisations in Sweden and the Turkish EU minister Egemen Bagis at the Turkish ambassador …
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Ahment Türk, the Co-Chairman of the Democratic Society Congress (DTK), a pro-kurdish party in Turkey, said that Kurds were part of the policies implemented in 1915 against the Armenians, Assyrians and Yezidies. "The Kurds have their share in that as well," he said. "Our grandparents persecuted these people. As descendands, we apologize to them." …
In his interrogation, Erhan Tuncel, organizer of the murder of Hrant Dink and police informant, said he had provided a report to the police in Trabzon on Yasin Hayal and killing of Hrant Dink, not four but 17 times. The negligence involved in making Tuncel, a key name in Dink’s murder, an informant and in his use in this role is already clear. Essentially, the infractions and irregularities go back to the bombing of a McDonald’s in Trabzon in 2004. …
A new collection of Poetry by The Halo is now available on Amazon.com in both paperback and a book. …
Seyfo Centre USA hosted a series of educational lectures in Los Angeles, San Diego, Turlock and San Jose on the Assyrian / Armenian Genocide and Seyfo in 1915. The lectures were organized with the help of local Assyrian American organizations, and given by the British-Armenian historian, Ara Sarafian (Gomidas Institute, London). …
Akçam is the only scholar of Turkish descent who chairs an Armenian studies department and one of only a handful of Armenian Genocide scholars researching in the Turkish archives. He has mined the archives extensively, with his latest book significantly contributing to the field. …