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Neal Haldane Detroit – The Detroit News — Martin Manna expects the November release of an economic report to measure the economic contributions Chaldean Americans make in the Detroit area. “We’ve been trying to have more of a voice,” said Manna, executive director of the Chaldean American Chamber …
Read More »Assyrian Academic Society Website Hacked By Turks
Fred Aprim USA – AINA — The Assyrian Academic Society’s website was hacked by a Turk today. The front page of the website was replaced with the picture shown below. The Turkish phrase says “this website was confiscated by Krutre in the name of the Turkish Nation.” An …
Read More »Adiabene Was Assyrian, Not Kurdish
Fred Aprim North Iraq – AINA — I sent an e-mail few weeks back to the web site in question when the article of Dr. Sharpe was brought to my attention. I did not receive any response. Yesterday, October 26, 2007, I addressed a letter to the Chairman …
Read More »Two British Armenian Political Action Groups Recognize the Assyrian Genocide
By Nora Vosbigian London – armeniancommunity — The two major Armenian political action groups in the United Kingdom have agreed to formally recognise the Assyrian Genocide. They will henceforth work for the common recognition of the Assyrian and Armenian genocides of 1915 in Ottoman Turkey. These declarations were …
Read More »Kidnapped Priests Released in North Iraq
Mosul(Iraq) – AINA — According to Baghdad’s radio SAWA, two kidnapped priests were released Sunday morning in the middle of the city, where they took a taxi back to the church. The ransom had been initially set at one million US dollars each. Father Mazin Esho and Father …
Read More »Assyrian Association Founded in Finland
Finland – AINA — The Finland Assyria Association (Soumi-Assyria Yhdistys) was founded on 16th October 2007. Its purpose is to defend the national rights of the Assyrian people, also called Chaldeans and Syriacs. The association will be headed by Dr. Simo Parpola, professor of Assyriology at the University …
Read More »Assyrian Democratic Organization Sends Letter to the Pope
His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI ܒܪܟܡܪܝ Vatican – ADO — On behalf of the Assyrian Chaldean Syriac people living in their Homeland (Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Iran) and Diaspora, we are writing to you to express our deep concern and growing alarm at the rapidly deteriorating situation of …
Read More »Konsuln går den turkiska statens ärenden
Sweden – ACSA — Sveriges konsul i Istanbul, Ingmar Karlsson, har haft stort genomslag hos svenska beslutsfattare när det gäller olika frågor, såsom speciellt Sveriges syn på Turkiets EU-medlemskap. Karlsson ger ett tydligt besked om var han själv står, genom sin under 2007 utgivna bok, ”Europa och turken, betraktelser …
Read More »Pertofts krav till Bildt – erkänn folkmordet Seyfo
Reporter:Ivana Vukadinovic SÖDERTÄLJE – LT — Erkänn folkmordet på armenier och assyrier/syrianer, kräver miljöpartiets Mats Pertoft. Han har nu skrivit en fråga till utrikesminister Carl Bildt. – Tyvärr tror jag inte att han vågar svara på den, säger Mats Pertoft. Nyligen slog det amerikanska representanthusets utrikesutskott fast att Turkiet …
Read More »Seyfobeslut sätter press på Ankara
Södertälje ( Sweden) – LT — Här i Södertälje är frågan om folkmordet – eller Seyfo, Svärdets år – ständigt aktuell. Många ättlingar till dem som drabbades av de systematiska utrensningar av kristna, som utfördes av ungturkarnas regim ledd av Enver Pascha, kämpar för ett turkiskt erkännande av folkmordet. …
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