SAYFO

YEREVAN — In a moment of long-overdue recognition, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI) has awarded the James Bryce Memorial Medal to Swedish historian David Gaunt, a leading figure in the study of genocidal campaigns against Christian minorities during the final years of the Ottoman Empire.  The award ceremony capped a…

One-hundred and ten years ago, more than 500 thousand Syriacs [Arameans–Assyrians–Chaldeans] in Beth Nahrin [Mesopotamia], were “cleansed” in the 1915 Sayfo Genocide. Subsequent policies of assimilation, both Islamization and Turkification, did the rest. Even though the Syriac people have been living through these genocidal policies and traumas for 110 years,…

PULHEIM, Germany / HENGELO, Netherlands — This year marks the 110th anniversary of the Sayfo Genocide, carried out by the Ottoman Empire during World War I against the Syriac (Aramean–Assyrian–Chaldean) people. To commemorate the victims, the Bethnahrin National Council (MUB), the European Syriac Union (ESU), and the Bethnahrin Women’s Union…

BAGHDEDA (QARAQOSH), Nineveh Plains — In a sober and solemn atmosphere, the Baghdeda Local Committee of the Bethnahrin Patriotic Union (Huyodo Bethnahrin Athroyo-HBA) today organized a vigil to commemorate the 110th anniversary of the Sayfo Genocide, which in the year 1915 cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Chaldeans-Syriacs-Assyrians…

BETH ZALIN, North and Syria / BAGHDEDE, Iraq — On the 110th anniversary of the 1915 Sayfo Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire and its Kurdish tribal allies against the Syriac (Aramean–Assyrian–Chaldean) people, the Syriac Union Party (SUP) in Syria and the Beth Nahrain Patriotic Union (Huyodo d’Bethnahrin Athroyo, HBA)…

By Leah Miksi-Sahdo “What can I tell you about Sayfo that you don’t already know?” These were the moving words of Richard Ghazal, Executive Director of In Defense of Christians, which captured the enduring legacy of the Sayfo Genocide—one that continues to echo through generations, even 110 years later. 110th…

WASHINGTON D.C. — During a congressional hearing on Thursday, Dr. Michael Rubin, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and director of policy analysis at the Middle East Forum, delivered a stark warning: Turkey’s persistent refusal to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide is far more than an insult to history, it…

QABRE HEWORE, North and East Syria — The municipality of Qabre Hewore (Qahtaniya), North and East Syria, has approved the application for a Sayfo monument. The application, submitted by the Syriac Union Party (SUP), seeks permission to erect a memorial in honor of the 110th anniversary of the 1915 Sayfo…

TEANECK, New Jersey / WORCESTER, Massachusetts — The documentary film Souls in Transit, which examines the 1915 Sayfo Genocide, will be screened this month in New Jersey and Massachusetts in the United States. Directed by Aida Schlafer, the film explores the atrocities committed against Syriac (Aramean–Assyrian–Chaldean) communities under the Ottoman…

PARAMUS, New Jersey, USA — A solemn memorial prayer service was held on Friday at the St. Mark’s Syriac Orthodox Cathedral in Paramus, New Jersey, USA, to honor the memory of the Syriac martyrs of the 1915 Sayfo Genocide, during which hundreds of thousands of Syriacs (Arameans–Assyrians–Chaldeans), Armenians, and Greeks…