More than four hundred guests and nearly sixty French Parliament and Senate members attended the well-organized gala of the Association des Assyro-Chaldeans in France (AACF) held on February 27, 2024. As it is known, last year, the French Senate passed a resolution that recognized the Assyrian (also known as Syriac and Chaldean) Genocide. The purpose of the gala was to continue to raise awareness of the Assyrian Genocide and to introduce the resolution in the French Parliament. It was spectacular …
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Published in 2021, Sayfo is based on surviving eyewitness accounts of the Assyrian genocide, penned by a seminarian from greater Tur Abdin (southeast of the modern Turkish state). The viewpoint is relatively unknown and seldom discussed. This text, which has been translated and annotated by a master of Syriac who also knows a lot about modern Assyrian history, is a rare chance for new research. The killing of the Assyrians is one of the worst things that people have forgotten …
Grandson of a survivor of the 1915 genocide, born in Turabdin, southeastern Turkey, Abuna Fikri Gabriel is a Doctor of Theology from the Catholic University of Louvain, Professor of Catholic religion at the Saint Laurent-Liège Institute and a Priest at the Syriac Church in Liège. He has published two essays in the Review of Ecclesiastical History, the Vatican faced with the genocide of Armenians and Syriacs (Brepols 2016) and in Cahier de la revue théologique de Louvain 46, Syriacs and Turks, what …
AN INTERVIEW WITH AHMET KARDAM, THE GRANDSON OF BEDIRKHAN BEY // Sabri Atman – The Assyrians’ homeland is Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Their history in this geography goes back thousands of years. Due to the divisions in the history of the Church, they were known by many different names. Nestorians are one of them! At the Council of Ephesus in 431 A.D., due to theological disagreements, some rejected Nestor’s views on the nature of Jesus and set …
BEDİRHAN BEY’İN TORUNU AHMET KARDAM’LA SÖYLEŞİ // Sabri Atman – Asurların ana vatanı Dicle ve Fırat nehirleri arasındaki Mezopotamya’dır. Bu coğrafyadaki tarihleri binlerce yıl öncesine dayanır. Kilise tarihindeki bölünmeler nedeniyle birçok ayrı isimle anıldılar. Nasturiler de bunlardan biridir! M.S. 431’de toplanan Efes Konsili’nde, teolojik görüş ayrılıklarının hâkim olması nedeniyle bir kesim, Nastur’un İsa’nın doğası üzerine olan görüşlerinin reddedilmesi üzerine taraftarlarına yeni bir yol çizdiler. Bu düşünceleri kabul edenler Nasturiler olarak adlandırıldılar. Kısaca Nasturilik, aynı etnik kökenden gelen halk arasında Hristiyanlığın …
AACO, ASA of AZ, and SEYFO are proud to be a part of this informative and moving event. We are also pleased to present our two special guests, Sargon Donabed and Leah Fisher. We will hear from Sargon Donabed on Monday, April 17th from 1:45 PM-3:00 PM. Leah Fisher will have a musical performance and discussion on Wednesday, April 19th from 5:00 PM-7:00 PM. We look forward to seeing you all there and hope we can continue to spread genocide …