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100th anniversary of signing of Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations
ATHENS / ISTANBUL — Monday, 30 January, marked the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Convention Concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations that would see the forced displacement of some 1.6 million people. Contemporary historians have referred to the exchange as legalized ethnic cleansing. Over the course…
Read More »REVITALIZING TUR ABDIN: Syriac Orthodox priest Shamoun Bagandi returns from Germany to his native village of Arbo, plants 350 pistachio trees
ARBO, TUR ABDIN, Turkey — Aiming to revive his homeland of Tur Abdin in Beth Nahrin (Mesopotamia), Syriac Orthodox priest Shamoun Bagandi and his family from Germany plan to return to his native village of Arbo (Turkish: Taşköy or ‘Village of Stones’). In a video posted on social media by…
Read More »Sexual Slavery as State Doctrine – “They were a huge attraction”
The German parliament recognized the massacres of Yezidis by the Islamic State as genocide on 19 January 2023. Below is the 2020 article by WELT correspondent Alfred Hackensberger on German ISIS fighters and their defenseless victims. Through Hackenberger’s in-depth field research in Syria and Iraq, German prosecutors were able to…
Read More »Joseph Yacoub: “Official recognition of the Assyrian-Chaldean genocide is a duty of remembrance.”
Originally published in French by Le Figaro on January 24, 2023. The original can be found here By Joseph Yacoub honorary professor of political science at the Catholic University of Lyon. Specialist in minorities in the world and Eastern Christians. On February 8, the Senate will discuss in a public…
Read More »TURKEY: Syriac organizations express serious concern about land transfers near Syriac areas to TOKI, “Steps must be taken to alleviate the worrisome situation of our people in Tur Abdin.”
BRUSSELS – Four Syriac organizations in Europe issued a joint press statement on the transfer of lands near the Syriac villages in Tur Abdin to the Turkish national housing agency or TOKİ (Toplu Konut İdaresi Başkanlığı) and the sale of these lands at exorbitant prices. The organizations express great concern…
Read More »Fire in Armenian Catholic church in Istanbul kills two people, reports of explosion before fire
ISTANBUL — Yesterday, a fire broke out in the Armenian Catholic church in the Karaköy neighborhood of the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Gazete Sabro reports. The cause of the fire is still unknown but investigations are underway. The fire in the Surp Prgich Church killed two people, a 75-year-old man…
Read More »Syriac member of the Turkish Parliament Tuma Ҫelik asks questions about land transfers to government housing agency TOKI in Nusaybin, local village farmers are left out
ANKARA / MARDIN – The Turkish national housing agency TOKI, Toplu Konut İdaresi Başkanlığı in Turkish, is rapidly building houses for the Turkish population. Hundreds of thousands of new homes will be built in the coming five years under a state-run home ownership program. To be able to achieve these…
Read More »The Syriac Genocide
This article was originally published in Turkish on June 16, 2021, by Gazete Sabro. The original can be found here By Eren Keskin human rights lawyer – Vice President of the Human Rights Association (İHD) in Turkey The region we live in is a geography full of crimes against humanity. The…
Read More »Sweden’s Olof Palme Award for three female freedom activists: Eren Keskin (Turkey), Marta Chumalo (Ukraine), Narges Mohammadi (Iran)
STOCKHOLM – Sweden’s Olof Palme International Center has announced the winners of the 2023 Palme Award. The award goes to three female freedom activists “for their fight for women’s freedom, at a time when human rights are threatened by war, violence, and oppression.” The Olof Palme Center said the 2023…
Read More »Turkish court sentences head of Turkish Medical Association Prof. Dr. Şebnem Korur-Fincancı to 32 months in prison for “terrorist propaganda”
ISTANBUL – The head of the Turkish Medical Association and forensic specialist Prof. Dr. Şebnem Korur-Fincancı was today sentenced by a Turkish court to 2 years, 8 months and 15 days in prison on charges of making “propaganda for a terrorist organization”. However, the 24th Istanbul High Criminal Court in…
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Syrian Democratic Forces announce arrest of 150 suspected ISIS members in operation in Raqqa
RAQQA, Syria — The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrested 150 individuals suspected members or …
