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  • DEM Party on Sayfo Remembrance Day: Syriacs are still waiting for recognition and justice

    SyriacPress 15/06/2025
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    TURKEY

    ANKARA – The Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (Halkların Eşitlik ve Demokrasi Partisi, DEM Parti) today 15 June 2025, commemorated the Sayfo Genocide of 1915 with, among others, a written statement calling for a social and political confrontation within Turkey with the Sayfo. The statement, entitled “We share the pain…

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  • 1915 and Adıyaman

    SyriacPress 15/06/2025
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    TURKEY

    By Muzaffer İris | Writer and academic The word Sayfo, meaning “sword” in Syriac, is rarely heard in and around the city of Adiyaman, Turkey. The events of Sayfo are not widely known here, largely because the Syriac language is scarcely used in the towns and villages where Syriacs reside.…

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  • SÜDEF President Evgil Türker: The Sayfo Genocide is core to our Syriac identity

    SyriacPress 15/06/2025
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    TURKEY

    MIDYAT, TUR ABDIN — Evgil Türker, President of the Federation of Syriac Associations in Turkey (Süryani Dernekler Federasyonu, SÜDEF), asserted that the Sayfo Genocide mark a historic turning point and forms a core part of the identity of the Syriac  (Aramean–Assyrian–Chaldean) people. He urged the Turkish state to stop evading…

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  • Bethnahrin National Council on Sayfo Remembrance Day: “Our Struggle to Raise Awareness of the Sayfo Genocide Continues”

    SyriacPress 14/06/2025
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    BETH NAHRIN – Under the banner “Our Struggle to Raise Awareness of the Sayfo Genocide Continues,” the Presidency of the Bethnahrin National Council (Mawtbo Umthoyo d’Bethnahrin, MUB), today released a formal statement commemorating 110 years since the Sayfo massacres of 1915. The MUB asserts that, by embracing the legacy of…

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  • “Asadur” Documentary on Armenian Genocide and Identity Set to Screen in Vienna

    SyriacPress 08/06/2025
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    SAYFO

    VIENNA — The documentary titled Asadur, focusing on the Armenian Genocide and the ongoing struggle for cultural identity, is set to screen on Thursday, June 19, at the Admiral Kino theater in Vienna, Austria.  Recognizing art as a powerful lens through which the suffering and resilience of communities can be…

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  • Peace cannot be the Affair of Only Two Parties

    SyriacPress 07/06/2025
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    By Fehmi Vergili | Co-President of the European Syriac Union Among the peoples who have borne the heaviest burdens of the prolonged conflict between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the Syriacs occupy a primary place. The armed clashes and long-standing security policies in Turkey have not…

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  • Residents of Tur Abdin battle fires amid severe thunderstorms

    SyriacPress 05/06/2025
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    TUR ABDIN — Fires erupted once again in the lands of Syriac (Aramean–Assyrian–Chaldean) villages in the region of Tur Abdin in southeastern Turkey after lightning struck an agricultural field on Wednesday. Residents acted swiftly to extinguish the flames, preventing further devastation. Heavy rains and severe thunderstorms, accompanied by strong winds,…

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  • US Ambassador to Turkey and Syria Envoy Tom Barrack visits Israel, Turkish Defense Minister Güler rules out Turkish withdrawal from Syria

    SyriacPress 05/06/2025
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    POLITICS

    TEL AVIV / ANKARA — US Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria Thomas Barrak met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior officials during a visit to Israel, while Turkish Defense Minister Yaşar Güler reaffirmed Ankara’s position against withdrawing its troops from Syrian territory.  Barak’s visit…

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  • Syriac language course launched at Public Education Center in Medyad (Midyat), Turkey

    SyriacPress 04/06/2025
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    CULTURE

    MEDYAD, Turkey — A new Syriac language course has been opened at the Public Education Center in Medyad (Midyat), Turkey, following a request submitted by instructor Adem Coskun to the Ministry of Education on 28 September 2024, seeking permission to hold the course.    The request was recently approved, marking the first time the…

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  • Turkish Parliamentary Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş visits Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party to discuss

    SyriacPress 03/06/2025
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    POLITICS

    ANKARA — Following his meeting with Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (Halkların Eşitlik ve Demokrasi Partisi, DEM Party) Co-Chairs Tülay Hatimoğulları and Tuncer Bakırhan, Turkish Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş (Justice and Development Party, AKP) revealed that a parliamentary committee will be formed and begin active work in the coming days…

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