Bodies of Christians who perished during the Assyrian Genocide

40 Christians dying a day say Assyrian refugees - The Syracuse Herald, 1915. The Syracuse Herald-Journal was an evening Newspaper in Syracuse New York from 1939 until Sep 29 2001, with roots back to 1839

The Washington Post and other leading newspapers in Western countries reported on the Assyrian Genocide as it unfolded.

Because of the mass killings, Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII was chosen as a Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East at only 11 years old. Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII (born February 28, 1908, in Qochanis in modern-day Turkey, died November 6, 1975 in San José The Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East (ܥܕܬܐ ܩܕܝܫܬܐ ܘܫܠܝܚܝܬܐ ܩܬܘܠܝܩܝ ܕܡܕܢܚܐ ܕܐܬܘܪ̈ܝܐ ‘Ittā Qaddishtā wa-Shlikhāitā Qattoliqi

An article from The New York Times, March 27, 1915. Events 196 BC - Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt. 1309 - Pope Clement V excommunicates Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year

The Assyrian Genocide (also known as Sayfo or Seyfo; Aramaic: ܩܛܠܐ ܕܥܡܐ ܐܬܘܪܝܐ or ܣܝܦܐ, Turkish: Süryani Soykırımı) was committed against the Assyrian population of the Ottoman Empire near the end of the First World War by the Young Turks. See Syriac (disambiguation for other uses Syriac (syr ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ leššānā Suryāyā) is an Eastern Aramaic language Turkish ( tr Türkçe IPA) is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All The Young Turks ( Turkish: Jön Türkler (plural from French: Jeunes Turcs) were a coalition of various groups favoring reforming the ^[1] The Assyrian population of northern Mesopotamia (Tur Abdin, Hakkari, Van, Siirt region in modern-day southeastern Turkey and Urmia region in northwestern Iran) was forcibly relocated and massacred by Ottoman (Turkish and Kurdish) forces between 1914 and 1920 under the regime of the Young Turks. Mesopotamia (from the Greek meaning "land between the rivers" is an area geographically located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers largely corresponding Tur Abdin ( Syriac:ܛܘܪ ܥܒܕܝܢ is a hilly region of south east Turkey incorporating the eastern half of Mardin Province, and Hakkâri is a city in the far southeast of Turkey. The name Hakkâri comes from the Aramaic Akkare (ܐܟܪ̈ܐ meaning 'farmers' A van is a kind of vehicle used for Transporting goods or groups of people Siirt (Sêrt سيرت is a city in southeastern Turkey and the seat of Siirt Province. Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iran topics. The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish The Turkish people (Türk Halkı also known as " Turks " ( Türkler) are defined mainly as being speakers of Turkish as a First language Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar The Young Turks ( Turkish: Jön Türkler (plural from French: Jeunes Turcs) were a coalition of various groups favoring reforming the ^[2] This genocide is considered by some scholars to be a part of the same policy of extermination as the Armenian Genocide and Pontic Greek Genocide ^[3]. During World War I and its aftermath (1914-1923 the

The Syriac name Qeṭlā ḏ-‘Amā Āṯûrāyā (ܩܛܠܐ ܕܥܡܐ ܐܬܘܪܝܐ), which literally means "killing of the Assyrian people", is used by some groups to describe these events. See Syriac (disambiguation for other uses Syriac (syr ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ leššānā Suryāyā) is an Eastern Aramaic language The word Qṭolcamo (ܩܛܠܥܡܐ) which means Genocide is also used in Assyrian diaspora media. Other groups, especially those that do not wish to use the ethnic identifier Assyrian, refer to the genocide as Saypā (ܣܝܦܐ), pronounced Sayfo in the West Syriac dialect, meaning "sword". The Arabic word saif (سيف and variations Saif Sayf Seif generally means Sword. It is not known how many died during the event, but estimates go from 500,000-750,000^[4] to 90,000 people.

Reasons

Reasons suggested for the genocide vary.

The Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians were the subject of forced relocations and barbaric executions, a possible cause being religious persecution of the Christian community of Anatolia. The Armenians (Հայեր Hayer) are a Nation and Ethnic group originating in the Caucasus and in the Armenian Highlands A large The Greeks ( Greek: Έλληνες) are a Nation and Ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions The Assyrians are an Ethnic group whose origins lie in what is today Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria. Christianity ( Greek Χριστιανισμός from the word Xριστός ( Christ)is a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings Anatolia (Anadolu Ανατολία Anatolía) or Asia minor, comprising most of modern Turkey, is the geographic region bounded by the Black The Assyrians were included as a subsection of the Armenians.

The Ottoman government, as well as others, claim that the Assyrians and Armenians sought autonomy from the Ottoman Empire and joined the invading Russian army in the east. The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending The Ottoman government saw the Assyrian and Armenian communities as a threat, so it relocated them to the Syrian Desert. The Syrian Desert (بادية الشام badiyah ash sham also known as the Syro-Arabian desert is a combination of Steppe and true Desert that is located in parts Many deaths occurred during the relocation "Death Marches" from starvation and dehydration. Starvation (also called inanition) is a severe reduction in Vitamin, Nutrient, and Energy intake and is the most extreme form of Dehydration ( hypohydration) is the removal of Water ( hydro in ancient Greek) from an object

The Assyro-Chaldean National Council stated in a December 4, 1922, memorandum that the total death toll was unknown, but it estimated that about 275,000 "Assyro-Chaldeans" died between 1914 and 1918. ^[5]

Political situation before World War I

Before the war approximately one half of the Assyrian population lived in what is today Southern Turkey. The Young Turks took control of the Ottoman Empire only five years before the beginning of World War I. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All The Ottomans planned to join the side of the Central Powers. The Central Powers ( German: "Mittelmächte" Hungarian: "Központi hatalmak" Turkish: "İttifak In 1914, knowing that it was heading into the war, the Ottoman government passed a law that required the conscription of all young males into the Ottoman army to support the war effort . Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year

Assyrians in what is now Turkey primarily lived in the provinces of Hakkari, Şırnak, and Mardin. Hakkâri is a city in the far southeast of Turkey. The name Hakkâri comes from the Aramaic Akkare (ܐܟܪ̈ܐ meaning 'farmers' Şırnak is a town in southeastern Turkey the capital of Şırnak Province. Mardin is a city in southeastern Turkey. The capital of Mardin Province, it is known for its Arab -style architecture and for its strategic location These areas also had a sizable Kurdish population. The Ottoman Empire entered World War I on October 29, 1914. Events 437 - Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II

Documented accounts of the massacre

Hannibal Travis, Assistant Professor of Law at Florida International University, wrote in the peer-reviewed journal Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal that:

Numerous articles in the American press documented the genocide of Assyrians by the Turks and their Kurdish allies. Florida International University, commonly referred to as FIU or Florida International, is a public Research University located By 1918, The Los Angeles Times carried the story of a Syrian, or most likely an Assyrian, merchant from Urmia who stated that his city was ‘‘completely wiped out, the inhabitants massacred,’’ 200 surrounding villages ravaged, 200,000 of his people dead, and hundreds of thousands of more starving to death in exile from their agricultural lands. The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily Newspaper published in Los Angeles California and distributed In an article entitled ‘‘Native Christians Massacred,’’ the Associated Press correspondent reported that in the vicinity of Urmia, ‘‘Turkish regular troops and Kurds are persecuting and massacring Assyrian Christians. ’’ Close to 800 were confirmed dead in Urmia, and another 2,000 had perished from disease. Two hundred Assyrians had been burned to death inside a church, and the Russians had discovered more than 700 bodies of massacre victims in the village of Hafdewan outside Urmia, ‘‘mostly naked and mutilated,’’ some with gunshot wounds, others decapitated, and still others carved to pieces.

Other leading British and American newspapers corroborated these accounts of the Assyrian genocide. The New York Times reported on 11 October that 12,000 Persian Christians had died of massacre, hunger, or disease; thousands of girls as young as seven had been raped or forcibly converted to Islam; Christian villages had been destroyed, and three-fourths of these Christian villages were burned to the ground. The Times of London was perhaps the first widely respected publication to document the fact that 250,000 Assyrians and Chaldeans eventually died in the Ottoman genocide of Christians, a figure which many journalists and scholars have subsequently accepted. The Times is a daily national Newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. . . .

As the Earl of Listowel, speaking in the House of Lords on 28 November 1933, stated, ‘‘the Assyrians fought on our side during the war,’’ and made ‘‘enormous sacrifices,’’ having ‘‘lost altogether by the end of the War about two-thirds of their total number. The House of Lords is the second house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is also commonly referred to as "the Lords" ’'. . . .

About half of the Assyrian nation died of murder, disease, or exposure as refugees during the war, according to the head of the Anglican Church, which had a mission to the Assyrians. See also Anglicanism The Anglican Communion is an international association of national Anglican churches

– ^[6]

In April 1915, Ottoman Troops easily invaded Gawar, a region of Hakkari, and massacred the entire population. Yüksekova (Gever Assyrian: Gawar) is a district of Hakkari Province of Turkey, situated close to the border with Iran. ^[7] Prior to this, in October of 1914, 71 Assyrian men of Gawar were arrested and taken to the local government centre in Bashkalla and killed. ^[8] Also in April, Kurdish troops surrounded the village of Tel Mozilt and imprisoned 475 men (among them, Reverend Gabrial, the famous red-bearded priest). The following morning, the prisoners were taken out in rows of four and shot. Arguments rose between the Kurds and the Ottoman officials on what to do with the women and orphans left behind. In the end, the army decided to kill them as well.

Cevdet Paşa the governor of Van, is reported to have held a meeting in February 1915 at which he said, "We have cleansed the Armenians and Syriac [Christian]s from Azerbaijan, and we will do the same in Van". ^[9]

Massacres at Van

In late 1915, Djeudet Bey, Military Governor of Van Province, upon entering Siirt (or Seert) with 8,000 soldiers whom he himself called "The Butchers' Battalion" (Kasap Taburu), ordered the massacre of almost 20,000 Assyrian civilians in at least 30 villages. Van is a province in eastern Turkey, between Lake Van and the Iranian border A civilian under International humanitarian law is a person who is not a member of his or her Country 's Armed forces. The following is a list documenting the villages that were attacked by Djeudet's soldiers and the estimated number of Assyrian deaths:

The village of Sairt/Seert, was populated by Assyrians and Armenians. Seert was the seat of a Chaldean Archbishop, the orientalist Addai Scher who was murdered by the Kurds.

On March 3, 1918, the Ottoman army led by Kurdish soldiers, assassinated one of the most important Assyrian leaders at the time, Mar Shimun XIX Benyamin. Events 1284 - Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England 1575 - Indian Mar Shimun XXI Benyamin ( Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܒܢܝܡܝܢ ܫܡܥܘܢ ܥܣܪܝܢ ܘܩܕܡܝܐ was a Catholicos Patriarch This resulted in the only retaliation of the Assyrians during all of World War I. Malik Khoshaba led an attack against the Ottomans. During the attack, some 30 soldiers were killed or wounded.

Massacres in Persian villages

The Ottomans were notified about the withdrawal of Russian forces from Persia in late 1914. The Persian Empire was a series of Iranian empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the original Persian homeland and beyond in Western Asia The 36th and 37th divisions of the Ottoman army were sent westward to the northwestern part of Persia. Before the end of 1914, Turkish and Kurdish troops had successfully invaded the villages in and around Urmaya. On February 21, 1915 the Turkish army in Urmia seized 61 leading Assyrians from the French missions as hostages, demanding large ransoms. Events 362 - Athanasius returns to Alexandria. 1245 - Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. A religious Mission or Mission station is a location for Missionary work The mission had enough money to convince the Ottomans to let 20 of the men go. On February 22, the remaining 41 were executed, having their heads cut off at the stairs of the Charbachsh Gate. Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne Among them was the bishop Mar Denkha.

These villages, unlike the Assyrian villages of present-day Turkey, were completely unarmed. The only protection they had was when the Russian army finally took control of the area, years after the presence of the Ottoman army had been removed. On February 25, 1915, Ottoman troops stormed their way into the villages of Gulpashan and Salamas. Almost all of the men of the village of Golpashan were shot. The Assyrian village of Golpashan is located in the Western Azerbaijan province in Iran In Salamas about 750 Armenian and Assyrian refugees were protected by Turkish civilians in the village. The commander of the Ottoman division stormed the houses despite the fact that Turks lived in them, and roped all the men together in big groups and forced them to march in the fields between Khusrawa and Haftevan. The men were shot or killed in other ways. The protection of Christians by Turkish civilians is also confirmed in the 1915 British report:^[8]

Many of the Moslems tried to save their Christian neighbours, and offered them shelter in their houses, but the Turkish authorities were implacable.

During the Winter of 1915, 4,000 Assyrians died from disease, hunger, and exposure, and about 1000 were killed in the village of Urmia.

Massacre of Khoi, Persia

In early 1918, many Assyrians started to flee present-day Turkey. Mar Shimon Benyamin had arranged for some 3,500 Assyrians to reside in the district of Khoi. KHOY (881 FM) branded as "Catholic Radio 881" is an Easy listening format station that serves the Laredo, Texas, United States Not long after settling in, Kurdish troops of the Ottoman Army massacred the population almost entirely. One of the few that survived was Reverend John Eshoo. After escaping, he stated:

You have undoubtedly heard of the Assyrian massacre of Khoi, but I am certain you do not know the details.

These Assyrians were assembled into one caravansary, and shot to death by guns and revolvers. Blood literally flowed in little streams, and the entire open space within the caravansary became a pool of crimson liquid. The place was too small to hold all the living victims waiting for execution. They were brought in groups, and each new group was compelled to stand over the heap of the still bleeding bodies and shot to death. The fearful place became literally a human slaughter house, receiving its speechless victims, in groups of ten and twenty at a time, for execution.

At the same time, the Assyrians, who were residing in the suburb of the city, were brought together and driven into the spacious courtyard of a house [. . . ] The Assyrian refugees were kept under guard for eight days, without anything to eat. At last they were removed from their place of confinement and taken to a spot prepared for their brutal killing. These helpless Assyrians marched like lambs to their slaughter, and they opened not their mouth, save by sayings "Lord, into thy hands we commit our spirits. [. . . ]

The executioners began by cutting first the fingers of their victims, join by joint, till the two hands were entirely amputated. Then they were stretched on the ground, after the manner of the animals that are slain in the Fast, but these with their faces turned upward, and their heads resting upon the stones or blocks of wood Then their throats were half cut, so as to prolong their torture of dying, and while struggling in the agony of death, the victims were kicked and clubbed by heavy poles the murderers carried Many of them, while still laboring under the pain of death, were thrown into ditches and buried before their souls had expired.

The young men and the able-bodied men were separated from among the very young and the old. They were taken some distance from the city and used as targets by the shooters. They all fell, a few not mortally wounded. One of the leaders went to the heaps of the fallen and shouted aloud, swearing by the names of Islam's prophets that those who had not received mortal wounds should rise and depart, as they would not be harmed any more. A few, thus deceived, stood up, but only to fall this time killed by another volley from the guns of the murderers.

Some of the younger and good looking women, together with a few little girls of attractive appearance, pleaded to be killed. Against their will were forced into Islam's harems. Others were subjected to such fiendish insults that I cannot possibly describe. Death, however, came to their rescue and saved them from the vile passions of the demons. The death toll of Assyrians totaled 2,770 men, women and children.

– ^[11]

Baquba camps

By mid-1918, the British army had convinced the Ottomans to let them have access to about 30,000 Assyrians from various parts of Persia. The British decided to deport all 30,000 from Persia to Baquba, Iraq. Baqubah ( BGN: Ba‘qūbah; also spelled Baquba and Baqouba) is the capital of Iraq 's Diyala Governorate. The transferring took just 25 days, but at least 7,000 of them had died during the trip. ^[12]

A memorandum from American Presbyterian Missionaries at Urmia During the Great War 16 to British Minister Sir Percy Cox had this to say:

Capt. Gracey doubtless talked rather big in the hopes of putting heart into the Syrians and holding up this front against the Turks. [Consequently,] We have met all the orders issued by the late Dr. Shedd which have been presented to us and a very large number of Assyrian refugees are being maintained at Baquba, chiefly at H. M. G. 's expense.

In 1920, the British decided to close down the Baquba camps. The majority of Assyrians of the camp decided to go back to the Hakkari mountains, while the rest were dispersed throughout Iraq. In 1933 a number of Assyrians were killed in Iraq. To this day Assyrians in Iraq make up an important Iraqi minority group. Minority politics in Iraq are represented by its various ethnic and religious groups

Massacres in the late Ottoman Empire

The Assyrians were not going to be an easy group to deport, as they had always been armed and were as ferocious as their Kurdish neighbors. ^[13]

Reports from the U. Diyarbakır is a province in eastern Turkey. The province covers an area of 15355 km² and the population is 1494321 Mardin Province ( Syriac: ܡܶܪܕܺܝܢ Merdin; Kurdish: Mêrdîn Arabic: مردين Mardīn) is a province of Turkey S. and Europe

The New York Times's editor V. Rockwell published an article in 1916, with the title "The Number of Armenian and Assyrian Victims". In the article, he stated:

Not only the Armenians are unfortunate: the Assyrians were also wiped out and each tenth was murdered. [. . . ] A lot of Assyrians perished but no one knows how many exactly. . . . within six months the Young Turks managed to do what the "Old Turks" were not able to do during six centuries. [. . . ] Thousands of Assyrians vanished from the face of the earth.

In November 1919 the periodical French Asia wrote:

the Assyrian massacres resembled the Armenian slaughters. And as about this nation, which had 250 thousand victims, has been spoken much less, it is necessary to inform the world about it.

Eyewitness accounts and quotes

Statement of German Missionaries on Urmia.

There was absolutely no human power to protect these unhappy people from the savage onslaught of the invading hostile forces. It was an awful situation. At midnight the terrible exodus began; a concourse of 25,000 men, women, and children, Assyrians and Armenians, leaving cattle in the stables, all their household hoods and all the supply of food for winter, hurried, panic-stricken, on a long and painful journey to the Russian border, enduring the intense privations of a foot journey in the snow and mud, without any kind of preparation… It was a dreadful sight,… many of the old people and children died along the way.

– ^[15]

The latest news is that four thousand Assyrians and one hundred Armenians have died of disease alone, at the mission, within the last five months. All villages in the surrounding district with two or three exceptions have been plundered and burnt; twenty thousand Christians have been slaughtered in Armenia and its environs. In Haftewan, a village of Salmas, 750 corpses without heads have been recovered from the wells and cisterns alone. Why? Because the commanding officer had put a price on every Christian head… In Dilman crowds of Christians were thrown into prison and driven to accept Islam.

– ^[16]

Recognition

Genocide monument in Paris, France

The genocide of Assyrians has yet to be officially recognized by any country. This is in contrast to the Armenian Genocide, which has been recognized by many countries and international organizations. Assyrian historians state the primary reason for this lack of recognition is that Assyria has been deprived of real political power throughout the 20th century. Early history The most Neolithic site in Assyria is at Tell Hassuna, the center of the Hassuna culture In addition, the massacre of Christians in Asia Minor is usually linked solely to the Armenian Genocide (and less to the Greek genocide and the Assyrian genocide). A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth Anatolia (Anadolu Ανατολία Anatolía) or Asia minor, comprising most of modern Turkey, is the geographic region bounded by the Black During World War I and its aftermath (1914-1923 the On April 24, 2001, Governor of the US state of New York, George Pataki, proclaimed that "killings of civilians and food and water deprivation during forced marches across harsh, arid terrain proved successful for the perpetrators of genocide, who harbored a prejudice against . Events 1479 BC - Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to The United States of America —commonly referred to as the New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous George Elmer Pataki (born June 24, 1945) is an American politician who was the 53rd Governor of New York serving three consecutive . . Assyrian Christians. "^[17]

In December 2007, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, the world's leading genocide scholars organization, overwhelmingly passed a resolution officially recognizing the Assyrian genocide, along with the genocide against Pontian and Anatolian Greeks. The International Association of Genocide Scholars is a global interdisciplinary non-partisan organization that seeks to further research and teaching about the nature causes and consequences ^[18] The vote in favour was 83%. The full text of the resolution reads:

WHEREAS the denial of genocide is widely recognized as the final stage of genocide, enshrining impunity for the perpetrators of genocide, and demonstrably paving the way for future genocides;

WHEREAS the Ottoman genocide against minority populations during and following the First World War is usually depicted as a genocide against Armenians alone, with little recognition of the qualitatively similar genocides against other Christian minorities of the Ottoman Empire;

BE IT RESOLVED that it is the conviction of the International Association of Genocide Scholars that the Ottoman campaign against Christian minorities of the Empire between 1914 and 1923 constituted a genocide against Armenians, Assyrians, and Pontian and Anatolian Greeks.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Association calls upon the government of Turkey to acknowledge the genocides against these populations, to issue a formal apology, and to take prompt and meaningful steps toward restitution.

In June 2008, Yilmaz Kerimo and Ibrahim Baylan both from the Social Democrats Party, put the genocide in the Swedish parliement to vote on the recognizition. Yilmaz Kerimo (born 1963 is an Assyrian and a member of the Riksdag (the Swedish Parliament and a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. Ibrahim Baylan (1972 &ndash is a social democratic Politician. The parliement voted against recognizing the genocide with 37 voting for it and 245 voting against it. ^[19]

Monuments

Monument in California.

The only governments that have allowed Assyrians to establish monuments commemorating the victims of the Assyrian genocide are France, Sweden, and the United States. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Sweden's government has pledged to pay for all the expenses of a future monument, after strong lobbying from the large Assyrian community there, led by Konstantin Sabo. There are two monuments in the U. S. , one in Chicago and the newest in Tarzana, California. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Tarzana (/tɑɹˈzænə/ is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States.

There have been recent reports indicating that Armenia is ready to create a monument dedicated to the Assyrian genocide, placed in the capital next to the Armenian genocide monument. Armenia (Հայաստան transliterated: Hayastan,) officially the Republic of Armenia (Հայաստանի Հանրապետություն Hayastani ^[20]

School institutions

In Canada, the Assyrian Genocide, along with the Armenian Genocide, are included in a course covering historical genocides. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page ^[21] Turkish organisations, along with other non-Turkish Muslim organisations, have reacted to this and protested.

See also

• Newspaper documentation of the Assyrian Genocide
• Armenian Genocide
• Assyrian independence
• List of Assyrian settlements
• Pontic Greek Genocide
• Simele massacre
• Yusuf Akbulut

Literature

• Joel Euel Werda. This page contains a brief list of press headlines relevant to the Assyrian Genocide in chronological order as recorded in newspaper archives The Assyrian independence (also known as the Assyrian Question) is a Political movement and Ideology that supports the creation of an Assyrian homeland The following is a list of current Assyrian towns and villages. During World War I and its aftermath (1914-1923 the The Simele massacre ( Syriac: syr ܦܪܡܬܐ ܕܣܡܠܐ Premta d-Simele) was the first of many massacres committed by the Yusuf Akbulut is a Syriac Orthodox Priest from St Mary's Church in Diyarbakır, Turkey. The Flickering Light of Asia: Or, the Assyrian Nation and Church
• Abraham Yohannan The Death of a Nation: Or, The Ever Persecuted Nestorians Or Assyrian Christians ISBN 0524062358
• Salahi Ramadan Sonyel (2001). The Assyrians of Turkey: Victims of Major Power Policy (in English). Turkish Historical Society Printing House. ISBN 9751612969. OCLC 49378769. The OCLC Online Computer Library Center is according to its website a "nonprofit membership computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purpose  
• W. A. Wigram (2002). The Assyrians and Their Neighbours (in English). Gorgias Press LLC. ISBN 1931956111. OCLC 49825930. The OCLC Online Computer Library Center is according to its website a "nonprofit membership computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purpose  
• David Gaunt (2006). Massacres, resistance, protectors: Muslim-Christian relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I (in English). Gorgias Press LLC. ISBN 1593333013. OCLC 85766950. The OCLC Online Computer Library Center is according to its website a "nonprofit membership computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purpose  
• Rosie Malek-Yonan (September 2005). Rosie Malek-Yonan is an Assyrian Actress, Artist, director, Author and Activist. "119", in Monica Malek-Yonan: The Crimson Field, First (in English), Pearlida Publishing, 567. ISBN 0977187349. OCLC 2005906414. The OCLC Online Computer Library Center is according to its website a "nonprofit membership computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purpose  “"I am an Assyrian. That is not up for debate. "” 
• Ronald Sempill Stafford (2006). The Tragedy of the Assyrians (in English). Gorgias Press LLC. ISBN 1593334133. OCLC 173087158. The OCLC Online Computer Library Center is according to its website a "nonprofit membership computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purpose  
• Yonan Shahbaz (2006). The Rage of Islam: An Account of the Massacres of Christians by the Turks in Persia (in English). Gorgias Press LLC. ISBN 1593334117. OCLC 76941896. The OCLC Online Computer Library Center is according to its website a "nonprofit membership computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purpose  

Notes

References

• The New York Times - October 11, 1915: Turkish Horrors in Persia

External links

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• http://www.aina.org/releases/20040805022140.htm
• http://www.aina.org/news/20071025121003.htm
• http://lalettre.hayway.org/protected/en/communique000100b8.html
• http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1915/bryce/a16.htm
• http://www.zyworld.com/Assyrian/The%20Assyrian%20Genocide.htm
• http://www.nineveh.com/Assyrian%20Genocide%20Victims%20Discovery.html
• Video clip 1918-Urmia Exodus
• The Assyrians in the Christian Asia Minor Holocaust
• The last Assyrians in Urmia, During the World War one Massacres
• Chronology of the Seyfo Genocide (1915-1923)
• Seyfo Denial - From Within?
• Turkey Should Recognize the Assyrian Genocide 1915
• Mr. Stallone, Don't Forget the Assyrian Genocide
• Assyrians - the Forgotten People, Part I
• Assyrians - the Forgotten People, Part II
• Assyrians - the Forgotten People, Part III
• Assyrian Tragedy
• The Greek Genocide 1914-23
• Notes on the Genocides of Christian Populations of the Ottoman Empire