SEYFO Center Appoints Dr. Anzhela Mnatsakanyan as Armenia Ambassador The SEYFO Center is proud to announce that Dr. Anzhela Mnatsakanyan has been appointed the Assyrian Genocide Research Ambassador in the Republic of Armenia. Dr. Mnatsakanyan is an Assyrian–Armenian political scientist from Armenia. She holds a PhD in political science and an MA in international relations from Yerevan State University, as well as an advanced MA in European interdisciplinary studies from the College of Europe (Poland). Her research focuses on Russian studies, the Eastern …
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IntroductionThis edited volume, The Genocide of the ChristianPopulations in the Ottoman Empire and Its Aftermath(1908–1923), by Taner Akçam, Theodosios Kyriakidis,and Kyriakos Chatzikyriakidis brings togetherinterdisciplinary scholarship examining the destruction ofArmenian, Greek, and Assyrian Christian communitiesduring the final decades of the Ottoman Empire and theearly Turkish Republic. Originating from a 2019international conference held at Aristotle University ofThessaloniki, the anthology situates the mass atrocitiesfaced by the non-Muslim Millets within the broaderprocess of imperial collapse and nation-state formation.By adopting a comparative framework, the editors …
(AINA) — The recent completion of Dr. Sabro Bengaro’s doctoral dissertation, Germany’s Islamic Strategy During the First World War and the Impact of the Jihad Declaration on the Assyrian Genocide of 1915, marks a significant milestone for both Assyrian scholarship and the global pursuit of recognition for the Seyfo genocide. For more than a century, the Assyrian experience of systematic destruction during World War I has been overshadowed in mainstream historiography, despite strong evidence of coordinated state policy, mass deportations, …
By Ramina Jajoo-Frindrich, MD, FACR, FACP December 1, 2025 Introduction On August 26, 2025, Assyrian-American podcaster Patrick Bet-David asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu why he has not recognized the Assyrian, Armenian, and Greek Genocide of 1915 perpetrated by the Ottoman Turkey. This exchange occurred during a 40-minute interview that covered several topics; at about the 38-minute mark, Bet-David raised the question regarding the genocide. The recording has since garnered …
AINA News By Abdulmesih BarAbraham Posted 2025-11-13 19:09 GMT (AINA) — Dr. Sabro Bengaro is the Director of the Assyrian Genocide Research Center. His recently completed dissertation, titled Germany’s Islamic Strategy During the First World War and the Impact of the Jihad Declaration on the Assyrian Genocide of 1915, at the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, examines, among other things, the German Empire’s Islamic strategy during World War I in the context of its political and propaganda …
By Abdulmesih BarAbraham A documentary film on the Assyrian Genocide (also known as Sayfo, “the sword”),released resently in France, highlights the Assyrian tragedy during World War I. It isentitled LES GENOCIDES D’ORIENT: LA TRAGÉDIE DES ASSYRIENS[Genocide in the Orient: The Tragedy of the Assyrians].In the documentary, renowned professors, historians and genocide scholars, explain thebackground and the unfolding of the events that led to the destruction of half of theAssyrian population in the Ottoman Empire. The film was written and directed …