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This article was originally published on 22 May 2021 by AINA The original can be found here By Abdulmesih BarAbraham In time for the 106th anniversary of the genocide perpetrated by the late Ottoman Empire during World War I (WWI), a new book by Professor Taner Akçam appeared in Turkish…

This article was originally published by Yahoo News on 9 May 2021. The original can be found here. By Salman Ameen for AFP, with Haydar Indhar in Nippur – One of the world’s oldest churches is crumbling deep in Iraq’s desert, another victim of years of conflict, government negligence and…

RIGA – Latvian parliament on May 6, recognized the Armenian Genocide by the adoption of a “Declaration on the Armenian Genocide during the Ottoman Empire”. The almost unanimously adopted declaration notes the “importance of commemorating the loss of life of those killed in the Armenian genocide, massacres, and forced relocations…

TUR ABDIN, Turkey – Eight heritage churches and monasteries of the ancient Syriac region of Tur Abdin in southeastern Turkey have been nominated by Turkey for UNESCO’s Tentative List, reports pro-government newspaper Daily Sabah. With the addition of these Syriac churches and monasteries and the nomination of the historical town…

ZALIN, Syria — Co-Chair of the Syriac Union Party (SUP) in Syria Sanharib Barsoum stated via Twitter that, “The recognition of the genocide against the Armenians, Syriacs (Arameans–Assyrians–Chaldeans), and Greeks at the hands of the Ottoman Empire is a correction of the false history that the Turkish state has spread…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Bloomberg reported on Friday that U.S. President Joe Biden informed his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan that he intends to announce his recognition of the massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 as genocide. It also reported that Biden would explicitly use the term genocide…

By Amine Jules Iskandar / Translated by Mabelle Kreidi During WWI, between 1914 and 1915, Lebanon witnessed a genocide, rarely ever spoken of. Unfortunately, our schools always taught that the famine that decimated about half of the Lebanese population, was due to an “unfortunate coincidence of disparate factors”. According to…

The Bethnahrain Nation Council (MUB) penned a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden urging him to include the genocides of the Syriac (Aramean-Chaldean-Assyrian) and Greek peoples in any future recognition of the Armenian Genocide. “The United States, as the leader of the free world and who has a long relationship…

MARDIN, Turkey (@gazetesabro) – Construction work for the construction of a multi-storey parking building on site, is endangering the foundations of the Syriac Catholic Mor Ephrem Monastery in Mardin. A damaged foundation puts the 19th century monastery in serious danger of collapse. The Syriac Mor Ephrem Monastery has monument status…

MOSUL, Iraq – In an effort to revive the historical heritage of Mosul and to rid the years of war and destruction by terrorist organization ISIS, Mosul residents in cooperation with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and local NGOs, have carried out several projects to renovate and rebuild…