On Thursday, Turkish occupation forces bombed the village of Chalik located on the Iraqi–Turkish border near the village of Hassana. Local sources have told International Christian Concern, a U.S.-based persecution watchdog, that seven predominantly Christian villages… Nothing is known about his father who went missing over … Not defending the terrorist Turkish State, but Turkey is not directly targeting Assyrians. The Assyrian homeland is in northern Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq, where the ancient cities of Assur and Nineveh were built. The Chaldean-Assyrian Christian villages are being devastated by the missiles launched by the Turkish army against the Kurdish secessionist guerrillas, which use them as human shields and even 'squatted' monasteries. The Assyrians who settled in the Khabour River Valley organized their villages according to their own tribal structure, with each village belonging to a single tribe. As such, each village effectively has two names, the official Arabic name and the unofficial Assyrian name, with the latter being the name of the tribe that built the town. Millions of people have been left without a reliable water source as a result. Ancient History of Israel and Judah Fighting Assyrian Empire: Today's Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria Nadene Goldfoot . Published Oct. 1, 2020 Updated Oct. 27, 2020. More than 40,000 people have died in the fighting that peaked in the mid-1990s. The PKK said the … ANKARA — When a long-simmering conflict in the south Caucasus burst into open warfare this week, Turkey ’s … The group mainly comprises Kurdish, Arab, and Assyrian/Syriac militias, as well as some smaller Armenian, Turkmen and Chechen forces. The Assyrian civilian population of upper Mesopotamia was coercively relocated and decimated by the Ottoman (Turkish) army, … The Assyrian population in the Ottoman Empire numbered about one million at the turn of the twentieth century and was largely concentrated in what is now Iran, Iraq and Turkey. Demir, the village headman, calls now on the rest of the Assyrian Diaspora (many of whom live in western countries like the US and Europe) to return home. The bombardment is still going on. Turkey's attack on Kurds in Syria betrays those doing the fighting against ISIS — and dying. Kurds have been doing this for decades. The name of Alagöz neighborhood in the southeastern district of Midyat, Mardin, has been changed back to Bethkustan Starting from 1921, the Turkish governments held a state policy to change the names of 30,280 dwelling areas including more than 12,000 villages. This list includes settlement of Assyrians from Southeastern Turkey who left their ancient tribes in Hakkari (or the historical Hakkari region), Sirnak and Mardin province due to torment, violence and displacement by the Ottomans in the First World War. CHALIK, Iraq — In the absence of significant international pressure, Turkey continues to bomb the villages of norther Iraq, including many villages inhabited by Chaldean–Syriac–Assyrian people. Seyde Bozdemir was born in the village of Elbegendi in Turkey's southeastern province of Mardin. On Sunday, one shell fired from the Syrian side struck a house in the Turkish village of Buyuk Kendirci, wounding four people. New Turkish attacks on the Chaldean–Syriac–Assyrian village of Chalik in northern Iraq 17/05/2021 CHALIK, Iraq — After the displacement of residents of the Chaldean–Syriac–Assyrian village of Chalik in the Nohadra (Dohuk) in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) due to recent Turkish attacks , Turkish warplanes and artillery on Sunday again bombed the village. The past week has seen multiple Turkish airstrikes targeting militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in parts of northern Iraq inhabited by Assyrians. 20 Assyrian villages in Iraq evacuated due to Turkey military operation . Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is one of the main alliances fighting Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria. Residents of Nahla report that the PKK presence in their villages dates back more than a decade and has steadily grown due to lack of intervention from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Seyde Bozdemir was born in the village of Elbegendi in Turkey's southeastern province of Mardin. The Armenian genocide was the systematic killing and deportation of Armenians by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire. Last weekend, Turkish aircraft reportedly attacked settlements in northwestern Iraq home to Assyrian communities, claiming Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) members were operating there. Now Trump's letting us be slaughtered in Rojava. It is difficult not to draw a connection that Turkey has systematically targeted areas of Christian, Yazidi and Kurdish minorities, seeking total ethnic cleansing and depopulation of minorities in Iraq and Syria. Mardin / NationalTurk – Aziz Demir is one of the many returnees. Istanbul (AINA) — The Istanbul Branch of the Human Rights Association Commission Against Racism and Discrimination published a report highlighting severe rights violations against the Assyrian Nun Verde Gökmen, who lives alone in the church of St. Dimet in the village Zaz (Turkish Ä°zbırak), in the Tur Abdin region in southeast Turkey. Turkish state media says explosion in village held by Ankara-backed forces near border also wounded 12 people. The Assyrian Genocide (also known as Sayfo orSeyfo, Syriac: ܩܛܠܐ ܕܥܡܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ or ܣܝܦܐ) refers to the mass slaughter of the Assyrian population of the Ottoman Empire during the 1890s, the First World War, and the period of 1922-1925. During the seventh and eighth centuries B.C. The Assyrian Empire showed that to control large areas of land with many peo- ple, an empire must have a highly organized government and a strong military. Turkey's attack on Kurds in Syria betrays those doing the fighting against ISIS — and dying. He and four of his comrades who were injured were deployed in the region as part of a force to protect 3.1 million civilians against the Assad regime, Iran and Russia. The Christian Assyrian community in Turkey, which now numbers … With the majority of Assyrians in Istanbul, the total population for the whole country is about 5,000. So Turkey has attacked Northern Syria with a view to destroying the Kurds. Assyria was a dependency of Babylonia and later of the Mitanni kingdom during most of the 2nd millennium bce.It emerged as an independent state in the 14th century bce, and in the subsequent period it became a major power in Mesopotamia, Armenia, and sometimes in northern Syria.Assyrian power declined after the death of Tukulti-Ninurta I (c. 1208 bce). According to Turkey, 12 Turkish hostages and one Iraqi Kurdish hostage were killed, all but one with gunshots to the head, in a cave complex in Gara earlier this year. Their silence … It comprised a great part of the Middle East from the Taurus Mountains in the North to the fringes of the Arabian desert and the Persian Gulf in the South, from the Mediterranean in the West to the Zagros Mountains in the East. The YPG, and its female counterpart the YPJ, are seen by many in the region as the last line of defense from the Islamic State. Assyria expanded by the 13th and 10th centuries BCE. The Assyrian genocide refers to the mass killing of the Assyrian population of the Ottoman Empire and those in neighboring Persia by Ottoman troops during the First World War, in association with the Armenian and Greek genocides.. In 2014 Islamic terrorists of ISIS attacked Assyrian towns and villages in the Assyrian … Turkey and the PKK have engaged in a cat-and-mouse war since the Kurdish rebels launched a full-scale insurgency against the Turkish state’s repression in 1984. Turkey's response to Russian attack in Syria safe-zone is a milestone. Turkey-SDF clash. Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army fighters are seen at a training camp in Azaz, Syria, January 28, 2018. The Turkish military is simultaneously engaging in systematic ecological destruction, bombing and cutting down forests in South Kurdistan, attacking water infrastructure in Rojava, and blocking the water flow down the Euphrates and Tigris rivers into Northern Syria. Armenian Genocide Today. Court delivers full decision on 2012 FETÖ plot A Turkish court delivered the reasoned decision on Jue 17 on the case of the 2012 plot of the FETÖ, known as the group's first overt attempt to overthrow the government. Published Oct. 1, 2020 Updated Oct. 27, 2020. The following newspaper articles documented the Assyrian genocide as it occurred: 1. Tel Tamr district in Al-Hasakah canton, is known as mini Syria, due to the multiplicity of components and coexisting sects in the region, including the Assyrian, whose villages were attacked by ISIS mercenaries in 2015, and had major negative effects on the Assyrian component. The German alekwjfkjwnkjfnkwjenfkjwenkfjwnkjefnkjwnekjfnwefwefwefwefmbassador reported that the Ottoman Empire was being "clear [ed]" of its indigenous Christians by "eliminat [ion]". In July 1915, he confirmed that the Assyrians of Midyat, Nisibis, and Jazirah were also slain. During this period, Assyrians — alongside Greeks and Armenians — were exposed to genocide, in which around 300,000 Assyrians perished.Assyrians call the crime “seyfo,” which means “sword” in their language, as swords were … So, I decided to make a post explaining why our issues are intertwined, and that Armenians should be more active towards fighting for Assyrian causes.