{"id":159,"date":"2005-01-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-01T20:26:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T20:26:49","slug":"assyrian-christians-say-kurds-wouldnt-let-them-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/assyrian-christians-say-kurds-wouldnt-let-them-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Assyrian Christians Say Kurds Wouldn&#8217;t Let Them Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=verdana>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Some Iraqi Christians say their kinsmen in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq weren&#8217;t allowed to vote in Sunday&#8217;s election. Simon George, co-director of an Assyrian satellite television station, says he received &#8220;at least 100 calls&#8221; from Assyrians complaining about being deprived of the vote in Christian villages around Mosul (MOH&#8217;-sul). He says Assyrian Christians were promised ballot boxes that didn&#8217;t arrive. <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=verdana>George said he was told that in the Assyrian villages, Kurds &#8220;stopped all the elections.&#8221; <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=verdana>In New York, the Reverend Ken Joseph Junior said he&#8217;s received similar reports from his fellow Assyrian Christians, and has asked that those villages be given an extra day to cast ballots. <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=verdana>Joseph says he&#8217;s also concerned that Iranians may have crossed the border to inflate the vote for Shiite (SHEE&#8217;-eyet) parties. He says most Assyrians and other Iraqis want a secular government. <\/FONT><\/P><\/DIV><!-- footer --><br \/>\n<DIV><br \/>\n<CENTER><BR><FONT face=verdana>? 2005, Assyrian International News Agency.&nbsp; All Rights Reserved<\/FONT><\/CENTER><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Some Iraqi Christians say their kinsmen in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq weren&#8217;t allowed to vote in Sunday&#8217;s election. Simon George, co-director of an Assyrian satellite television station, says he received &#8220;at least 100 calls&#8221; from Assyrians complaining about being deprived of the vote in Christian villages around Mosul (MOH&#8217;-sul). He says Assyrian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-assyrian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}