TUR ABDIN

ANKARA/MARDIN – Syriac Member of Turkish Parliament for Mardin Tuma Çelik today has submitted parliamentary questions to the Minister of Justice Abdulhamit Gül regarding the unsolved murder case (Faili Meçhul) of three Syriacs in Turkey’s southeastern region of Tur Abdin, reports Syriac newspaper Gazete Sabro. Together with driver Aydın Aydın…

BEIRUT— On Sunday morning, Syriac Catholic Patriarch Mor Ignatius Youssef III Younan visited Patriarch of Cilicia for the Armenian Catholics Patriarch Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian, at the headquarters of the Armenian Catholic Patriarchal See, in Beirut. The meeting was attended by the Patriarchal Vicar of the Armenian Catholics Archbishop George…

MIDYAT, Turkey – The chairman of the Syriac Church Foundation in Midyat Anto Nuay Beth Bisse died Friday of a heart attack in his hometown of Midyat, reports Syriac newspaper Gazete Sabro. Rushed medics were unable to save 80-year-old Bisse. Anto Beth Bisse was born in 1941 in Midyat, Tur…

MERDO / TUR ABDIN, southeast Turkey — In 2020, Turkish authorities arrested the elected mayor of Arkah village in Tur Abdin in southeast Turkey Yusef Yar, a Syriac member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on dubious charges of “aiding a terrorist organization”.  Yar was arrested in January…

BSORINO, Turkey — According to Simon Güzel, an official from Bsorino village in Tur Abdin in southeast Turkey, a new hotel, the House of Hope, was recently inaugurated. The hotel was established by the local community to increase tourism and service visitors from the diaspora. Members of the Syriac (Aramean–Assyrian–Chaldean)…

MIDYAT, TUR ABDIN, Turkey – Local branches held commemorations of the martyrs of the Beth Nahrin National Council and Syriac people in Midyat, Turkey, and Ticino, Switzerland. The Federation of Syriac Associations in Turkey (SÜDEF) held a commemoration in Midyat which began with a minute of silence for the souls…

TUR ABDIN, Turkey – The renovated Mor Dimet Church in the Syriac village of Zaz was (re-)consecrated on September 26, 2021, in the presence of many former Syriac villagers, now living in the diaspora, Syriac Orthodox priests, and independent Syriac Member of Turkish Parliament Tuma Çelik. There are two more…

BSORINO / TUR ABDIN, Turkey – The village of Bsorino is one of the few remaining Syriac villages in Tur Abdin, southeastern Turkey, with a large Syriac population of 40 families. It also however, has a large diaspora in Sweden, Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany who regularly visit their relatives in…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an opinion piece for the Washington Examiner, Michael Rubin stated that, after withdrawing from Afghanistan, the White House is eyeing the U.S. military presence in Syria and Somalia “much to the delight of al Qaeda and al Shabab.” Ironically, says Rubin, the Biden Administration is determined…

TUR ABDIN, Turkey – Some of the roads in Syriac villages in Tur Abdin have been renewed and asphalted. It concerns village and access roads in Arbo, Ehwo, and Beth Debe (Badibe) in the pre-dominantly Syriac region Tur Izlo of Tur Abdin. According to a resident who returned from the…