By Ann-Margret (Maggie) Yonan William Saroyan was an award-winning American writer and play-write whose books and plays have been translated in nearly every major language. Most recently, a group of Armenian publishers, (Ohannes Kilicdagi, Aziz Gokdemir, and Arman Artuc, “Aras Publishing”) in Istanbul Turkey, published one of his most famous short stories, Seventy Thousand Assyrians, in Turkish, called Yetmish Bin Suryani. This is one of the most important achievements in the 21 st century for Saroyan’s legacy and the Assyrian and …
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By Sabri Atman (AINA) — When speaking about the Ottoman Empire and Turkey today, it is not their contribution to civilization that comes to mind. Instead, it is human rights violations, confiscation of land and property, genocide and genocide denials that are most frequently discussed in the public discourse. Today’s Turkey is still far from being ruled by democratic principles. Thousands of journalists, human rights activists, and opponents of the government are in jail or in exile. Osman Kavala is …
Dear Friends, As many of you know, Seyfo Center has been working diligently and tirelessly towards the international recognition of the Genocide and ethnic cleansing committed against the Assyrians (also known as the Syriacs and Chaldeans), which is still going on. In our attempt to raise awareness for the Assyrian genocide, we have been actively working in several fields: We have a large pool of sources and provides research assistance to scholars, writers, journalists, filmmakers and government agencies. We document …
The SEYFO Center together with the Assyrian American Association of Southern California will encourage the State of California to become the 3rd state to recognize the Assyrian Genocide in the United State. Indiana Becomes 48th U.S. State to Recognize the Armenian Genocide …
By Sabri Atman When after a long illness, the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I died on March 21, 2014, the Holy Synod elected Mor Ignatius Aphrem II as Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch. This was during an uncertain and unstable period in our people’s lives for several reasons. The civil war in Syria was costing the lives of hundreds of thousands and at the same time Iraqi Assyrians and other Christians were facing genocide, and once …
By Ann-Margret “Maggie” Yonan Turlock, Ca. 8/7/2017 On Monday, August 7th, 2017 Assyrians of Stanislaus County with the help of the coordinator, Carmen Mourad held an Assyrian Genocide Remembrance Day at CSU Stanislaus in the Mainstage Theater to commemorate the Assyrian genocide from 1914-1918. The evening started at 6 pm with a reception of Assyrian appetizers in the main lobby, including an art exhibit at the gallery featuring Nahrin Malki, Jelbert Karami, Fadi Khiyo, and Ninos Chammo. The president of the university, …
By Uzay Bulut / On June 23, the Armenian-Turkish newspaper Agos reported, Inquiries by the Mor Gabriel Monastery Foundation revealed that dozens of churches and monasteries have been transferred to the Treasury first and then allocated to the Presidency for Religious Affairs, known as the Diyanet, in Turkish. And the cemeteries have been transferred to the Metropolitan Municipality of Mardin. Kuryakos Ergün, the president of the Mor Gabriel Monastery Foundation, told The Philos Project that the decision of allocating the churches and monasteries to the Diyanet …