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AINA) — The Liberal Party and The Liberal Youth Federation in Sweden organized a seminar on the Assyrian genocide on the 18th February, which attracted closer to 100 persons at Telge Forum in the “Assyrian” city of S?dert?lje. This is a step in the work of raising the Seyfo issue …

Translated from the Turkish original by EasternStar News Agency A large Turkish manifestation was planned in Berlin for the coming weekend, 18 ? 19 March 2006, under the watchword ?Bring the flag and come to Berlin?. The manifestation, which was subsidized by the Turkish government, has now been stopped by …

??venistlerin y?r?y??? yasakland?   Almanya’n?n ba?kenti Berlin’de 15-19 Mart tarihleri aras?nda, Rauf Denkta?, Do?u Perin?ek ba?ta olmak ?zere di?er t?rk ??venistlerinin yapaca?? y?r?y?? ve etkinlikler yasakland?. Berlin Emniyet M?d?r??n?n ald??? karar alman ve t?rk bas?n?nda yer ald?. Y?r?y??, 1915 Soyk?r?m? kurbanlar?n?n an?s?na sayg?s?zl?k olaca?? gerek?esiyle yasakland?. Gerek?enin bu ?ekilde g?sterilmi? …

By Mehmet Kalyoncu In this insightful essay reflecting on a recent trip to Turkey?s often ignored southeast, Turkish scholar Mehmet Kalyoncu makes the case for why the national interest lies with improving the rights of religious minorities such as the Assyrian Christians. Assyrian Metropolitan Samuel Aktas was anxiously pacing back …

At the beginning of the 21st century Assyrians began to apply for entry into the land register for their rightful land in Turabdin. Many Assyrians have been in the villages and tried to get their properties registered at the Turkish surveying office. This work, which Turkish authorities described as the …

AINA- Noorth iraq: In a public forum organized by the Kurdish Center for Human Rights on February 18th, 2006, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s Minister of Human Rights discussed their latest findings of mass graves filled with hundreds of victims of the Saddam Hussein regime. The victims were mostly Kurds belonging …

  Ms Rice has also requested funds to back dissidents in Iran The US has announced it is to give $5m (?2.87m) in grants to pro-democracy groups in Syria. The funds are aimed at “accelerating the work of reformers”, a State Department statement said. A website has been set up …

The January 29th, 2006 bombing of six churches throughout Kirkuk and Baghdad marks an undeniable trend. The message is intended for two audiences. The international community (mainly the multinational forces in Iraq) constitutes one target audience. The other is Iraq’s Christian Assyrian1 community. The latter live close enough to insurgents, …

All over the Muslim world people have demonstrated and even burnt down and attacked Danish and other European embassies. The first victims due to the paintings were the Assyrians/Syriacs of Iraq. Six churches belonging to this group have been attacked and three Christian Assyrians/Syriacs have been killed. The massive pressure …

In some of the media in the Moslem world they jeer at, or ridicule Jesus, Moses, Buddha or some other prophet almost every day.  I have never heard that anyone spit on, trampled or burned the flags of Arab nations because of this.  The religion that western society is based …