Mardin /Nusaybin’e bağlı Mor Yakup kilisesi Rahibi Sefer (Resamet ismi Aho) Bileçen ve Üçköy (Arkah) ‘ın yeni seçilen muhtarı Joseph Yar ve Musa Taştekin isimli Süryani ile birlikte toplamda 10 kişi, 9 Ocak 2020 günü ev baskınlarıyla Nusaybin’de önce gözaltına alındı. Ardından da dosyaya gizlilik kararı getirilmişti. 10 Ocak 2020 günü Mardin Adliyesinde Nöbetçi Sulh ceza Hâkimliğince “Örgüte yardım ve yataklık etmek” iddiasıyla Rahip Sefer Bileçen tutuklandı. Yaşlı Süryani Musa Taştekin ile birlikte 3 kişi Adli kontrol şartıyla serbest bırakıldı. Muhtar …
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The House voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to formally recognize the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocide and denounce it as a matter of American foreign policy, a symbolic vindication for the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek diaspora made possible by a new torrent of bipartisan furor at Turkey. The passage of the legislation, by a 405-to-11 vote. The resolution, which is not legally binding, marked the first time in 35 years that either chamber of Congress considered as genocide the mass killings of …
The Assyrian genocide of 1915 in the Ottoman Empire and the Simele massacre of 1933 have been recognized by the State of California recently. Read the full resolution text here, that has passed on September 9, 2019: bit.ly/2mf2UFR The decision was made unanimously, with both Democratic and Republican assembly members behind the resolution. Assyrian Christians — often simply referred to as Assyrians— are an ethnic minority group whose origins lie in the Assyrian Empire, a major power in the ancient …
Amerika’nın Kaliforniya Eyaletinde Tarihi Adım Osmanlı Türkiye’sinde gerçekleşen Asur 1915 (Süryani) soykırımı ve Irak’ın Simele şehrinde Irak ordusu tarafından 1933 yılında gerçekleşen Simele katliamını resmen tanıdı. Seyfo Center’in uzun bir süreden beri yaptığı çok yönlü çalışmalar ürünlerini verdi. Başarıyla sürdürülen çalışma sonucu Demokrat ve Cumhuriyetçi Meclis üyeleri ile birlikte bir önerge üzerine anlaşıldı. Bu önergede Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda 1915 yılında gerçekleşen soykırım ile; 1933 yılında Irak’ın Simele şehrinde gerçekleşen katliamın lanetlenmesi ve tanınması oy birliğiyle karara bağlandı. Amerika’nın 50 eyaletinden 49’u Ermeni …
By Daniel Campos Between 1894 and 1924, 1.5 million to 2.5 million Christians were murdered in Anatolia World-renowned Israeli historian Benny Morris sat down with i24NEWS to discuss his new body of work, which seeks to unravel the systematic genocide of Christian subjects of the Ottoman Empire before and after its collapse. As found in The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of its Christian Minorities, between 1894 and 1924, 1.5 million to 2.5 million Christians were murdered in Asia Minor. Many of Morris and …
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 …
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 …