{"id":343,"date":"2006-09-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-01T20:26:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T20:26:49","slug":"governmental-terror-against-christians-in-midyat-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/governmental-terror-against-christians-in-midyat-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Governmental terror against Christians in Midyat, Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

On <\/SPAN><\/FONT>August 30th, 2006<\/SPAN><\/FONT> an unknown man threw a grenade <\/SPAN><\/FONT>into the house of Mr. Gabro Seven in Midyat, south-eastern <\/SPAN><\/FONT>Turkey<\/SPAN><\/FONT>, fortunately the family was not home at the time.<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
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According to reliable sources, a police officer named <\/SPAN><\/FONT>Aytac Tefek is behind what happened and that Tefek has <\/SPAN><\/FONT>been responsible for other such operations and pressure <\/SPAN><\/FONT>tactics aimed to force the Assyrians in the area to leave. <\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
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Two days earlier another tragic incident took place. <\/SPAN><\/FONT>Mr. Issa Dogan, living in <\/SPAN><\/FONT>Australia<\/SPAN><\/FONT>, and Yusuf Ay were <\/SPAN><\/FONT>assaulted and beaten up by some Muslim extremists in <\/SPAN><\/FONT>the centre of Midyat.  An individual from the Cimmo family <\/SPAN><\/FONT>tried to blackmail Mr. Dogan into giving him $7000 dollars. <\/SPAN><\/FONT>When he refused, 15-20 people surrounded them and started <\/SPAN><\/FONT>to beat them up in front of a lot of people, who unfortunately <\/SPAN><\/FONT>did not dare to interfere or help them.<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
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In 2002 Faulus and Afram Haidari were severely beaten up <\/SPAN><\/FONT>near the <\/SPAN><\/FONT>city hall<\/SPAN><\/FONT> of <\/SPAN><\/FONT>Midyat<\/SPAN><\/FONT> when they tried to submit a complaint <\/SPAN><\/FONT>against the Cimmo family. The Cimmos had occupied their <\/SPAN><\/FONT>property and lands, the Haidari family was given the choice to <\/SPAN><\/FONT>either leave or to be killed. <\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
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On <\/SPAN><\/FONT>July 23rd, 2005<\/SPAN><\/FONT>, Mr. Zeki Un, a Swedish Assyrian, and his <\/SPAN><\/FONT>son David were shot in their legs by Kahraman Yildiz, a senior <\/SPAN><\/FONT>member of the ruling Turkish party AKP.  <\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
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Non of these committers was neither arrested nor subjected <\/SPAN><\/FONT>to any legal procedures, which gives a green light to any aggressors <\/SPAN><\/FONT>to commit more horrible actions enabling them to reach their goals <\/SPAN><\/FONT>of controlling the Assyrian lands and properties in the region.<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
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There are already other villages in Tur Abdin which have been <\/SPAN><\/FONT>confiscated by the Turkish authorities and Muslim extremists <\/SPAN><\/FONT>who tend to use violence against those who try to return the <\/SPAN><\/FONT>properties to their rightful owners.<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
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It is extremely important to remind the European countries that <\/SPAN><\/FONT>while <\/SPAN><\/FONT>Turkey<\/SPAN><\/FONT> is trying to negotiate its way into the European Union, <\/SPAN><\/FONT>the conditions for the Assyrians and other Christian minorities in <\/SPAN><\/FONT>Turkey<\/SPAN><\/FONT> have not improved in any way. And that <\/SPAN><\/FONT>Turkey<\/SPAN><\/FONT>?s empty <\/SPAN><\/FONT>promises throughout its history makes every one aware of the <\/SPAN><\/FONT>danger that <\/SPAN><\/FONT>Turkey<\/SPAN><\/FONT> is following its old path.  It is worth noting <\/SPAN><\/FONT>that many of the Assyrians who had fled <\/SPAN><\/FONT>Turkey<\/SPAN><\/FONT> for <\/SPAN><\/FONT>Europe<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/SPAN><\/FONT>during the 1960?s and 1970?s because of persecution have <\/SPAN><\/FONT>begun to return to their towns and villages but they are facing <\/SPAN><\/FONT>many dangers, especially what concerns their security.<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
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<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/P>
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Simon Barmano,<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
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President of the Assyrian National Association of <\/SPAN><\/FONT>Sweden<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
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Kontakt<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
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Telefon:<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/B> +46 (0) 8 550 166 83
Fax:<\/SPAN><\/B> +46 (0) 8 550 115 93
Postadress:<\/SPAN><\/B> Box 6019, 151 06 S?dert?lje
E-post:<\/SPAN><\/B> simon.barmano@hujada.com<\/A> <\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On August 30th, 2006 an unknown man threw a grenade into the house of Mr. Gabro Seven in Midyat, south-eastern Turkey, fortunately the family was not home at the time. According to reliable sources, a police officer named Aytac Tefek is behind what happened and that Tefek has been responsible for other such operations and …<\/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-343","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\/343","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=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}