{"id":883,"date":"2008-12-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-01T20:26:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T20:26:50","slug":"thousands-of-assyrians-rally-in-sweden-in-support-of-besieged-monastery-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/thousands-of-assyrians-rally-in-sweden-in-support-of-besieged-monastery-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Assyrians Rally in Sweden in Support of Besieged Monastery in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nS\u00f6dert\u00e4lje, Sweden – AINA —<\/SPAN><\/p>\n

Nearly four thousand Assyrians gathered in the
\ntown of S\u00f6dert\u00e4lje on Sunday to protest the attempts by Muslim village leaders
\nin south-eastern Turkey to confiscate lands belonging to the ancient Saint
\nGabriel monastery (AINA
\n12-2-2008<\/a>,
\n9-16-2008<\/a>).
\nRepresentatives of major Swedish political parties, Assyrian organizations and
\nbishops were present to convey a message of support to the 1600 years old
\nmonastery.<\/p>\n

Assyrian representatives committed themselves to do whatever is necessary to
\nstop the attacks against what they consider to be the last standing Assyrian
\nChristian symbol in south eastern Turkey.<\/p>\n

European politicians are standing by the Assyrians and the Saint Gabriel
\nmonastery (AINA 12-9-2008<\/a>).
\nThe German ambassador to Turkey, Dr. Eckart Cuntz, visited the monastery (AINA
\n12-12-2008<\/a>) and Swedish
\nMPs Mats Pertorft and Yilmaz Kerimo are planning to attend the second court
\nhearings which will begin on the 19 December.<\/p>\n

Between 1914-1918 a genocide was perpetrated against the Assyrian population
\nin northern Mesopotamia and especially in the areas of what is today south
\neastern Turkey. Turks and Kurds cooperated to wipe out the non Muslim population
\nin the name of Jihad. Today only 3000 Assyrians remain in south-eastern Turkey.
\nFor many Assyrians today the attacks against the Saint Gabriel monastery are
\nseen as a continuation of the 1914-1918 genocide, which Turkey still denies.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> for
\npictures of the St. Gabriel monastery.<\/p>\n

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     S\u00f6dert\u00e4lje, Sweden – AINA — Nearly four thousand Assyrians gathered in the town of S\u00f6dert\u00e4lje on Sunday to protest the attempts by Muslim village leaders in south-eastern Turkey to confiscate lands belonging to the ancient Saint Gabriel monastery (AINA 12-2-2008, 9-16-2008). Representatives of major Swedish political parties, Assyrian organizations and bishops were present to …<\/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-883","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\/883","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=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}