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Tänd ett ljus för offren 1915

Den 24 april 1915 arresterades hundratals armeniska och andra kristna intellektuella i Istanbul som sedan avrättades. Detta var startskotet för ett folkmord som eliminerade stora delar av assyrier, armenier och pontus-greker i det ottomanska Turkiet.

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The Assyrian Genocide of 1915

Today the ethnic category Assyrian is used for indigenous Christian peoples living in Kurdistan and northern Mesopotamia who speak (or once spoke) an Aramaic Semitic language. They were among the first peoples to become Christians and have kept ancient theologies, which came to differ very much from European Christianity.

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