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@theEUpost –  May 19 is the Greek national day of remembrance of the Pontian Genocide, the systematic killing of the Christian Greek, Armenians and Assyrians population carried out in Anatolia between 1913- 1922. Already, the International Association of Genocide Scholars passed a resolution in 2007 recognizing the Ottoman campaign against…

SYDNEY, Australia – Australian senators Larissa Waters and Pat Dodson expressed their support for recognition of the Genocide in 1915 against Armenians, Syriacs and Greeks. Australian Greens senator for Queensland Larissa Waters put her signature to the Joint Justice Initiative in which the Australian government is asked to recognize the…

BERLIN – A memorial commemorating the victims of the Sayfo Genocide of Chaldeans-Syriacs-Assyrians, the Armenian Genocide, and the Pontic Greek Genocide occurring during the Ottoman Empire has been constructed in Berlin. The monument was established by the initiative of the Association for the Promotion of an Ecumenical Memorial to Genocide…

By Steve Sweeney for The Morning Star SYRIACS, a Middle Eastern ethnic and religious minority, have launched a campaign demanding the European Parliament officially recognises the 1915 Sayfo genocide, in which at least 500,000 men, women and children were killed under Ottoman rule. The European Syriac Union (ESU) wants the…

BRUSSEL – On Saturday, the European Syriac Union (ESU) launched a campaign to bring the issue of the 1915 Ottoman genocide of Syriac-Assyrian Christians, or Sayfo, before the European Parliament. Signatures will be collected via an “e-petition” hosted at change.org hoping to show the European Union that there is sufficient popular…

AMMAN – For the first time on a Jordanian TV channel, Dr. Basim Zayto spoke about the genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire against the Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian (CSA) people in 1915, in which more than 275,000 had been killed. “Sayfo is a Syriac word meaning sword,” said Dr. Zayto. “The Genocide…

The views expressed in this op-ed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of SyriacPress. By Marcus Yalcin Beth Shao Someone once asked me: why don’t you just forgive the Turks? It’s history and happened more than a century ago? But is that possible ……

Turkey – The Peoples’ Democratic Congress (Turkish: Halkların Demokratik Kongresi, HDK) released a statement to the press in which it states that the open wound, which is the Genocide on Armenian and Syriac peoples in Anatolia and Mesopotamia by the Ottoman-Turkish ruling classes, can only be healed if the legal…

ACHRAFIEH, Beirut, Lebanon – To mark and commemorate the 105th anniversary of the “Sayfo” Genocide in 1915 in the Ottoman Empire against Syriacs, Armenians and Pontus Greeks and against Syriac Maronites in Mount Lebanon, the President of the Syriac Union Party Ibrahim Mrad and his party leadership along with Syriac…

This article was originally published on 7 January 2015 in the Armenian Weekly magazine on Ottoman genocides, co-edited by Khatchig Mouradian (coordinator, Armenian Genocide Program, CGHR, Rutgers University) and Sabri Atman (director, Seyfo Center–the Assyrian Genocide Research Center) The original article can be found here. By David Gaunt Mardin is…