Assyrian Democratic Organization ADO
More Pictures by esamedia.se (ZNDA: Stockholm)? On Tuesday 15 November around 300 students, journalists, scholars and other interested people gathered in Stockholm for the conference on the Assyrian and Armenian Genocide of 1915, also known as Seyfo (Assyrian word for sword). The conference was organised by the federation of Sweden’s …
Read More »REVIEW OF MINORITY RIGHTS ENVIRONMENT IN TURKEY
GENERAL OVERVIEW After the 17th December turning point when EU promised Turkey to give a date for negotiations for membership, the seemingly rapid progress towards democratisation started to slow down and gradually came to a stop altogether, with the military taking a very aggressive stance in the Kurdish issue …
Read More »The Assyrian and Armenian Genocides of 1915
The genocide of Assyrians in Ottoman Turkey remains one of the darker pages in contemporary accounts of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Despite the fact that Assyrian Christians were exterminated alongside Armenians, the world hears much less of the Assyrian factor. Some commentators even state that Ottoman Greeks and Kurds …
Read More »How Long Before Europe Falls to Muslims?
Liberals in America are trying to take over the White House and dictate to a sitting president who should be on his personal staff. The media follows the president to foreign soil to hound him about “Plamegate,” and all the while, parts of Europe are coming unglued. The liberal media …
Read More »An American’s View of Iraq’s Assyrians
AINA) — I am a volunteer American serving my nation in Iraq. While here, I have had the opportunity to visit most regions of this country, and I have many months service training and serving with Iraqi forces. During my time, I have met many Chaldo-Assyrian people and consider them …
Read More »Iraqi president to meet with pope in November
PRESS RELEASE: Metropolitan Julius Jesuh? ?i?ek passed
PRESS RELEASE Losser, 31st of October 2005 On Saturday the 29th of October 2005 His Eminence Metropolitan Julius Jesuh? ?i?ek passed away. He was appointed as the Metropolitan of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch in Middle Europe ince 1979. His demise happened while he was on his way from …
Read More »Rosie Malek-Yonan?s Schedule of The Crimson Field Book Tour
20 October 2005 By AssyriaTimes Staff WriterThe Crimson Field, Rosie Malek-Yonan?s historical Novel of the Assyrian massacre of 1914-1918 has stirred tremendous interest among the Assyrians and non-Assyrians since it was published less than two months ago.Rosie Malek-Yonan continues her tour of the book and is being called back to …
Read More »POLITICS-IRAQ: Vote Figures for Crucial Province Don’t Add Up
The final official figures for the province, obtained by IPS from a U.S. official in Mosul, actually have the constitution being rejected by a fairly wide margin, but less than the two-thirds majority required to defeat it outright. Both the initial figures and the new vote totals raise serious questions …
Read More »Assyrian students unite
HUDSON HOU/daily bruin Paul Benjamin receives various responses from people when he tells them of his ethnicity. Along with other Assyrian students, Benjamin helped put together the Assyrian Students Association to help spread the word about their heritage. By Lindsey MorganDAILY BRUIN CONTRIBUTORlmorgan@media.ucla.eduWhen he tells people he is Assyrian, …
Read More »