What would be a special and unique gift to give to a 100-year-old Monroe woman who survived the genocide of the Pontic Greeks by the Turkish government in the years following World War I? …
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A Kurdish intellectual Mr Behzat Bilek, known with his actual Kurdish name as Berzan Boti, has officially transferred his estate that was inherited to him from his grandfather. Realizing that this estate was confiscated as a result of the genocide carried against all Christians during WWI, in the late Ottoman Empire and that his grandfather was one of the perpetrators, he decided to return it to its actual owners of the land namely the Assyrians (also known as Chaldean, Suryoyeh …
In the early part of the 20th century, the Ottoman government carried out a deliberate and systematic mass ethnic cleansing of its Christian inhabitants, namely the Assyrians, Armenians and Greeks. The proclamation of a fatwa for jihad against the Christians in Turkey quickly spread to northwestern Persia, in the densely Assyrian populated region of Urmia (Urmi). From 1914 to 1918, two-thirds of the Assyrian population perished in a genocide that has remained cloaked under a shroud of secrecy. However, the …
Four Kurdish men gathered a group of Christian female survivors in the cathedral …
Dear Friends and Honoured Guests; I wish I did not have to stand in front of you today and that our friend here, known as Berzan Boti, could use his real name. But in a state like Turkey, where human rights are violated on a daily basis, this is impossible …
The 41st edition of the Enschedese Marathon took place on Sunday the 26th of April. At least 70.000 people enjoyed the event. Amongst the 8000 runners, many had an Assyrian background. …