This country has used us up – Turkey’s Christians

By Nurcan Baysal A photograph on the Voice of America website last month showed Armenians in Diyarbakır, my hometown, celebrating Easter in a café, as they still had no access to their church.  The curfew put in place by Turkish authorities in December 2015 remains in effect in the 6 districts of Sur, the ancient centre of Diyarbakır, where the Surp Giragos Armenian Church is located.  During the clashes between young Kurdish insurgents and the Turkish state, military curfews were declared

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The Turkish Foreigner Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu: Turks are proud of their history because they have not committed any genocide

By Sabri Atman The Turkish Republic, as the lawful successor of the Ottoman Empire, has a policy of denial and refuses to acknowledge the genocide despite overwhelming evidence. The Republic of Turkey was founded on the genocide of 1915 and even after 104 years the genocidal mentality remains. President Erdogan maintains, “Muslims cannot commit genocide.” During the years of World War I more than half of the Assyrian population in the Ottoman Empire was systematically murdered. The majority of those

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Persecution and Genocide Testify to Unique Experience of Assyrians

AINA News By Tuma Abraham, MD Augsburg, Germany (AINA) — In a lecture at the Assyrian Mesopotamian Association of Augsburg on April 22nd to mark the commemorative event of the 104th anniversary of Assyrian Genocide, Mr. Abdulmesih BarAbraham examined a sociological aspect of genocide, how victims of genocide view themselves given their unique experience of mass murder. From their grandparents who survived the genocide, the Assyrians know well the repeated saying: what happened to us did not happen to any

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April 24 March for Justice in LOS ANGELES

GLENDALE – The Armenian Genocide Committee is proud to announce the solidarity and participation of 49 coalition partners for the April 24 March for Justice in commemoration of the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and the demand for accountability by the Turkish government. “The AGC welcomes the broad-based support it has received from its coalition partners to March for and demand universal justice for the Armenian Genocide. Our coalition partners have consistently expressed their solidarity by actively working with us

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