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JÖNKÖPING, Sweden — According to SyriacPress sources, the Syriac (Chaldean-Assyrian-Aramean) political, cultural, and religious institutions, together with local football clubs in Jönköping, will take part in a demonstration commemorating the martyrs of the 1915 Sayfo Genocide. Slogans and banners are scheduled to be raised on Saturday, August 24, from 6:00…

SYDNEY — This year’s Assyrian Martyrs Day in Australia will be held at the New South Wales Parliament on Wednesday August 6, the Assyrian National Council of Australia (ANCA) and the Young Assyrians announced. Keynote speaker is Dr. Anahit Khosroeva who will deliver a lecture on “Memory and Marginalization: The…

DUBLIN — People Before Profit–Solidarity (PBP-S) MP Paul Murphy introduced a motion to Ireland’s Dáil Éireann — the lower house and Ireland’s principal chamber — this week calling on the Irish government to recognize, teach, and commemorate the 1915 Sayfo Genocide on the Christians in the Ottoman Empire. Murphy’s motion…

JERUSALEM — The city of Jerusalem has named one of its squares after Armenian photographer Elia Kahvedjian, a survivor of the Genocide of 1915 on the Christians of the Ottoman Empire. The Hebrew inscription reads: “Elia Kahvedjian Square – Survivor of the Armenian Genocide, photographer, lover of Jerusalem,” reports the…

By Leah Miksi-Sahdo — This haunting question echoed deeply in the hearts of everyone who watched Souls in Transit. Long after the credits rolled, the words lingered—not as a mere question, but as a command for the descendants of Sayfo Genocide survivors. Their roots stretch deep into a history soaked in…

In the heart of Kharput, a historic city in eastern Turkey, Ashur Yousef was born in 1858, destined to become an enduring symbol of the Assyrian struggle for freedom and dignity. Known as the “Sheikh of Assyrian Journalism” and its first martyr in modern history, Ashur was more than a…

SPRINGFIELD (IL), United States — The state of Illinois has officially included the 1915 Sayfo Genocide—committed by Turks and Kurds against the Syriacs (Arameans–Assyrians–Chaldeans), Armenians, and Greeks during the final years of the Ottoman Empire —in its high school curriculum for 2025-2026 as part of a dedicated broader instructional unit on…

ATHENS — On 13–14 June, an international conference titled 1915–2025: One Hundred and Ten Years After the Genocide convened in Athens. Organized by the Greek Ministry of Education, its General Secretariat for Religious Affairs, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and the Assyrian Union of Greece, the conference brought together historians…

MEDYAD (MIDYAT), Tur Abdin — On Sunday, the Federation of Syriac Associations in Turkey (Süryani Dernekler Federasyonu, SÜDEF), organized a memorial evening at its Medyad (Midyat) headquarters, in Tur Abdin to commemorate the Sayfo Genocide of 1915, during which the Syriac people were subjected to mass atrocities by the Ottoman…

TEANECK, New Jersey — The documentary film Souls in Transit, which sheds light on the 1915 Sayfo Genocide committed against the Syriac (Aramean–Assyrian–Chaldean) people by the Ottoman Empire, was screened in a local cinema in Teaneck, New Jersey, drawing an emotional response from attendees. The film’s director, Aida Schlaepfer, attended…