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  • The Role of Culture and Tradition in Shaping Identity: The Case of the Assyrians and Mhalmoye

    SyriacPress 24/05/2025
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    CULTURE

    By Denho Bar Mourad-Özmen | Journalist and Moderator at Suroyo TV  For stateless and often displaced peoples like the Assyrians and the Mhalmoye (Arabic: Mahalmi, Mhalmi), culture and tradition serve not only as identity markers but also as survival tools. These communities, originating from ancient Mesopotamia and Southeastern Turkey respectively, have…

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  • The Mhalmoyto Region: Common Traditions and Rites between Christian and Muslim Mhalmoye

    SyriacPress 02/01/2023
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    CULTURE

    By Denho Bar Mourad-Özmen, Journalist and Moderator at Suroyo TV  Shahro d-Elath   ܫܗܪܐ  ܕ ܐܠܐܬ (Elath Veneration Day) Two kilometers southwest of the Mhalmoyto village of Dayro Zbino (Acirli), just below the main road that runs from Midyat to Mardin, is the famous underground city of Elath. The town is…

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  • MHALMOYTO REGION: Suryoyo diaspora plans to restore Saint Simon of the Olives Church in Habses

    SyriacPress 21/12/2022
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    CULTURE MHALMOYTO TUR ABDIN TURKEY

    JÖNKÖPING, Sweden – The Syriac diaspora of the village of Habses has announced this month its intention to fully restore the centuries old Syriac Orthodox Saint Simon of the Olives Church and the Saint Lo’ozor (Lazarus) Monastery in their village in the Mhalmoyto Region, southeast Turkey. In a post on…

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  • The Mhalmoyto Region: Common Traditions and Rites between Christian and Muslim Mhalmoye in Habses

    SyriacPress 20/07/2022
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    CULTURE

    By Denho Bar Mourad-Özmen, Journalist and Moderator at Suroyo TV  Despite the fact that the majority of the Mhalmoye are Muslims today, they still follow many of the traditions of their Christian ancestors. Likewise, names of places, ancient churches, monasteries, wells, and caves still bear witness to Christian tradition through…

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  • The Mhalmoyto Region: Kfar Shomac ܟܦܰܪܫܳܡܰܥ Shorezbah ܫܳܪܶܙܒܰܚ and Estel ܐܰܫܬܠ

    SyriacPress 28/05/2022
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    TUR ABDIN

    By Denho Bar Mourad-Özmen journalist and moderator at Suroyo TV  The village of Kfar Shomac ܟܦܰܪܫܳܡܰܥ (Turkish: Budakli) The village of Kfar Shomac ܟܦܰܪܫܳܡܰܥ is located on an old caravan road between Midyat and Nsibin. In the seventeenth century, the village, like several other villages, belonged to the Mor Gabriel…

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  • The Mhalmoyto Region: Macsarto (Ömerli), Beth Awe (Kayadere), and Harbtho d’Gargnose (Aliçli)

    SyriacPress 15/05/2022
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    TUR ABDIN

    By Denho Bar Mourad-Özmen journalist and moderator at Suroyo TV  Macsarto ܡܰܥܣܰܪ̈ܬܐ (Ömerli) Macsarto (Ömerli) is a city and district in Mardin province, southeastern Turkey, and is located in the historic Syriac homeland of Tur Abdin. The Syriac name Macsarto ܡܰܥܣܰܪ̈ܬܐ (in the Mhalmi Arabic vernacular معسرتة) means ‘wine press’…

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  • Prof. Fuat Shamun Oduncu, founder of World Medical Association of Suryoye, receives German Federal Cross of Merit

    SyriacPress 04/05/2022
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    MHALMOYTO WORLD

    MUNICH, Germany – Fuat Shamun Oduncu, a professor of medicine at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and a specialist in hematology, oncology and palliative care, today received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his career-long work in cancer research, palliative medicine and medical ethics The…

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  • The Mhalmoyto city of Sawro ܨܰܘܪܐ

    SyriacPress 30/04/2022
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    TUR ABDIN

    By Denho Bar Mourad-Özmen journalist and moderator at Suroyo TV  The city of Sawro is located in the middle of the Mhalmoyto Region and is already mentioned by the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II as an important city. Its name is derived from the Syriac (Aramaic) word Sawro ܨܰܘܪܳܐ , which…

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  • The Mhalmoyto city of Hesno d’Kifo ܚܣܢܳܐ ܕ ܟܐܺܦܳܐ

    SyriacPress 16/04/2022
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    TUR ABDIN

    By Denho Bar Mourad-Özmen journalist and moderator at Suroyo TV  The waters of the Tigris River gave rise to the first settlements in the Fertile Crescent and Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilizations. Hesno d’Kifo is a very old settlement that already appears in ancient Assyrian clay writings. The city is…

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  • Habses ܚܰܒܣܶܣ – an important village in the Mhalmayto Region (part II)

    SyriacPress 09/04/2022
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    TUR ABDIN

    By Denho Bar Mourad-Özmen journalist and moderator at Suroyo TV  Syriac families in Habses in the year 1870 Below is a list of the number of Christian Mhalmoye who lived in my home village of Habses. This list was compiled in 1870 by monk Abdallah Sadadi at the request of…

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