AACF – Officiel: It’s done. Today, April 29, 2024, the National Assembly has just voted unanimously on a resolution recognizing the Assyro-Chalden Genocide of 1915–1918, presented by the deputy Anne Laure BLIN, chairman of the Renaissance group, and the deputy LR Sylvain Maillard. Remember, at our Annual Grand Dinner just 2 months ago, former President Nicolas Sarkozy, who had honored us with his presence, in his speech, called on the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, to officially recognize the …
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“Sizin arkanızdayım!” Fransa’daki Asur-Keldani Derneği’nin (AACF) 27 Şubat 2024 tarihinde düzenlediği son derece iyi organize edilmiş gala, 400’den fazla kişinin katılımıyla gerçekleşti. Geçtiğimiz yılın Şubat ayında, Fransa Senatosu’nun Asur (Süryani, Keldani) soykırımını tanımasıyla alakalı bir karar aldığı biliniyor. Bu yıl, Paris’te bulunan InterContinental Paris le Grand otelinde yapılan galanın amacı, Asur Soykırımı konusunda farkındalık yaratmak ve Fransız Parlamentosu’nda bir tasarı sunarak bunun kabulünü sağlamaktı. Etkinlik, Asur-Keldani dernek başkanı Tony İde’nin misafirleri selamlama konuşmasıyla başladı. Etkinliğe dört yüzden fazla kişi katılım …
More than four hundred guests and nearly sixty French Parliament and Senate members attended the well-organized gala of the Association des Assyro-Chaldeans in France (AACF) held on February 27, 2024. As it is known, last year, the French Senate passed a resolution that recognized the Assyrian (also known as Syriac and Chaldean) Genocide. The purpose of the gala was to continue to raise awareness of the Assyrian Genocide and to introduce the resolution in the French Parliament. It was spectacular …
Published in 2021, Sayfo is based on surviving eyewitness accounts of the Assyrian genocide, penned by a seminarian from greater Tur Abdin (southeast of the modern Turkish state). The viewpoint is relatively unknown and seldom discussed. This text, which has been translated and annotated by a master of Syriac who also knows a lot about modern Assyrian history, is a rare chance for new research. The killing of the Assyrians is one of the worst things that people have forgotten …
Grandson of a survivor of the 1915 genocide, born in Turabdin, southeastern Turkey, Abuna Fikri Gabriel is a Doctor of Theology from the Catholic University of Louvain, Professor of Catholic religion at the Saint Laurent-Liège Institute and a Priest at the Syriac Church in Liège. He has published two essays in the Review of Ecclesiastical History, the Vatican faced with the genocide of Armenians and Syriacs (Brepols 2016) and in Cahier de la revue théologique de Louvain 46, Syriacs and Turks, what …