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Interview By Marta Sömek @gazetesabro – After producing the documentary Sakli Haç, journalist and documentary-maker Altan Sancar is currently carrying out a project which will shed light on the history of the Syriacs and the genocide they suffered during the Sayfo Massacres in 1915. Gateze Sabro’s Marta Sömek interviewed Altan…

Canberra – Australian Member of Parliament John Alexander attached his name to the initiative started by Armenians, Syriac-Assyrians and Greeks living in Australia to ask the Australian government for official recognition of the Sayfo Genocide of 1915 on Armenians, Greeks and Syriacs (Assyrians-Arameans-Chaldeans). MP John Alexander is a member of…

Sydney – Syriac, Armenian, and Greek citizens in Australia submitted a joint Memorandum of Understanding to the Australian Federal Parliament requesting the government of Australia to recognize the horrific ethnic cleansing campaign and events of 1915 officially a Genocide. In Syriac this Genocide of 1915 is called Sayfo. The text…

QAMISHLI, Syria – Ms. Siham Qiryo, official of the Syriac Women’s Union in Syria and Co-Chair of the General Council of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, commented on the recent recognition of the Sayfo and Armenian genocides by the Syrian parliament on Tursday, remarking that the…

Sweden’s Forum för Levande Historia, a pro-democracy and pro-human rights NGO funded by the Swedish Ministry of Culture, organized a day of lectures on the Genocide of 1915 on Armenians, Syriacs and Pontus-Greeks. In the morning session Turkish historian at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem, Ümit Kurt explained the…