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Congressman Hyde greeted the Assyrian Delegation and he recognized some members of the delegation from their last trip to the Capital Hill which they were given, unprecedented, long time to present the Assyrian case to him and consequently to the Foreign Relation Committee. Last night President Bush’s reference to the …

Opposition parties in exile fell under the influence of host countries (Iraq?s neighbors especially), which dealt with them as political pawns depriving them of freedom of action and thus opportunities to establish democratic traditions. The adage that says ?there is no democracy without democrats? was proven right by the events …

northern Iraqi provinces. At the time of the formal request in 1994, the Ancient Church of the East did not have any Bishop-level presence in all of northern Iraq. Mr. Abdul Hameed Adil Yazdeen’s refusal to grant permission to build the Assyrian Church center has since been repeatedly upheld by …

Cairo – Relying on diplomatic sources the Arabic newspaper “Al Hayat” reported on those plans on Sunday. In addition to a Kurdish-Turkmen-Assyrian (federal) state north of the 36th parallel, the report says, there will be an Arabic Sunnite state in the middle of the country and a Shi’ite state in …

In a meeting that included the director of Sargon’s Publishing House, Mr. Chamoun Danho, with the director of the library, Mrs. Eva Dankis, an agreement was reached to strengthen the cooperation between Sargon’s Publishing House and the Library of S?dert?lje through the offering of assistance to concerned individuals to collect …

As a result of this treaty the Assyrian people have been an easy victim for the present regimes. These regimes use several methods to erase the Assyrian existence. In the twentieth-century two massacres have taken place to exterminate the Assyrians (in 1914 by Turkey and in 1933 by Iraq). Until …

Quite regrettably, in early October, journalists from a major Turkish newspaper, Hurriyet, interviewed an Assyrian (Syriac) priest from St. Mary’s Syriac Orthodox Church in Diyarbakir with the hope of eliciting a Christian denial of the 1915 Holocaust. Rather than succumbing to the escalating hysteria of threats and intimidation within Turkey …