LIEGE, Belgium – On 4 October, an event will take place in Liège to commemorate the Sayfo Genocide against the Syriac (Aramean-Assyrian-Chaldean), Armenian and Pontic Greek peoples. The event will feature a documentary exhibition, an academic lecture, and a documentary based on testimonies from survivors and eyewitnesses from 1915. The event is organized by the European Syriac Union (ESU) and will be held at Place des Franchises.

AMSTERDAM — The genocide of the Suroye (Syriacs–Arameans–Assyrians–Chaldeans), know as the Sayfo, is now explicitly included in a Dutch history textbook used in secondary education, marking a milestone in a decades-long campaign by Suroye organizations to bring the history of the 1915 genocide into Dutch classrooms. The genocide is addressed in Feniks – Geschiedenis 3, a secondary-school history textbook, where Suroye and Greeks are identified as victims of the mass violence carried out in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, according to…

Az adás vendége Robert C. Castel biztonságpolitikai szakértő és Sayfo Omar a Migrációkutató Intézet kutatási vezetője volt.

SYDNEY — The Cyprus Community of NSW joined the Armenian community at the Parliament of New South Wales in Australia this week for a commemoration that placed remembrance, historical truth, and Australia’s humanitarian response at the center of discussions about the genocides of the early 20th century. The event, held on Tuesday, brought community representatives together to honor the victims of the Sayfo Genocide and reflect on the broader destruction inflicted on the Suroyo (Syriac–Aramean–Assyrian–Chaldean), Armenian, and Pontic Greek peoples during the final years of the Ottoman Empire.

By Musa Ergin The province of Erzurum was one of the regions where the Armenian Genocide was experienced most severely in 1915. Major massacres and deportations took place in Erzincan, Bayburt, Erzurum, Kars, Ardahan, and Iğdır. The overwhelming majority of the Armenian population was either exterminated or uprooted from the province. According to witnesses, there were certain Turks whose names we do not even know.

SORYA, Iraq — The modern history of the Suraye (Chaldeans-Syriacs-Assyrians) is overshadowed by massacres and genocides. After the Sayfo Genocide, the Kafno, and the Simele Massacre, the wronged Suraya people were subjected to another massacre on 16 September 1969, in the remote village of Sorya, in the Zakho district of Nohadra (Duhok Governorate) in what is now the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). 

LIEGE, Belgium — The European Syriac Union (ESU) will hold the fourth edition of its Sayfo exhibition in Liege this month. The exhibition titled Sayfo 1915: Le peuple syriaque, histoire d’un génocide oublié (Sayfo 1915: The Syriac People — The Story of a Forgotten Genocide) is scheduled to open this Saturday, 12 September, at the local Church of Sainte-Marie des Anges.

By Ablahad Hanna Saka | Member of the Bethnahrin National Council The connection between Christians and Sinjar did not come to an end permanently. In the modern era, the city witnessed the return of Christian communities, particularly following the tragedies suffered by Christians and Armenians in Tur Abdin, Mardin, and the provinces of southern Anatolia during the Sayfo Genocide of 1915, as well as the Hamidian massacres that preceded them and the violence and persecution that followed.

WORCESTER, Massachusetts, USA — Historian and sociologist Taner Akçam announced the forthcoming publication of his new book, Empire of Violence: A New History of the Armenian Genocide, which he describes as the culmination of more than 35 years of research on the Armenian Genocide. The 288-page book will be published by Princeton University Press in January 2027. It examines the period from 1878 through the 1930s through what Akçam describes as a “new understanding of continuity,” placing the Armenian Genocide within a broader history of anti-Christian violence in the late Ottoman Empire that also affected Greeks and Suroye (Syriacs–Arameans–Assyrians–Chaldeans).

CANBERRA — Representatives of Armenian, Suroye (Syriac–Aramean–Assyrian–Chaldean), and Greek communities renewed their campaign for Australia’s federal recognition of the 1915 genocides during a day of meetings with lawmakers at Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday. The delegation was organized by the Joint Justice Initiative (JJI), a coalition established in 2020 by the Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC-AU), the Assyrian National Council–Australia (ANCA), and the Australian Hellenic Council (AHC) to jointly advocate for recognition of the mass killings and deportations of Armenians, Suroye, and Greeks in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War and its aftermath.

BOTKYRKA, Sweden — A Syriac Orthodox church in Sweden has publicly rejected any association with Nuance Party (Partiet Nyans) after the political party used an image of the church in its election campaign material, saying it had neither been consulted nor given permission for the image to be used. In a statement issued by the church board, Syriac Orthodox Church of St.

BAGHDAD / YEREVAN — Two painful events in the history of the Suraye (Chaldean–Syriac–Assyrian) people are marked on 7 August, namely the 1933 Simele Massacre in Iraq and the 1915 Sayfo Genocide, perpetrated against Suraye, Armenians, and Pontic Greeks by the Ottoman army and allied Kurdish tribes during World War I. On the occasion, calls have been renewed for official recognition of these tragedies, as well as for justice, the protection of diversity, and the promotion of peaceful coexistence.

By Musa Ergin The history of Kastamonu offers a crucial perspective on the diverse forms of resistance against the Armenian Genocide. Local officials in the province refused to implement the deportation orders, a stance that directly saved the lives of thousands of Armenians. The words of Kastamonu Gendarmerie Commander İzzet Bey symbolize an unwavering belief in historical judgment: “In the future, you will be held accountable for what you have done.”

SYDNEY — Suraye (Chaldean–Syriac–Assyrian) organizations and institutions in the homeland of Beth Nahrin (Mesopotamia) and the diaspora held commemorative events to mark Assyrian Martyrs’ Day and the 93rd anniversary of the Simele Massacre, carried out by the Iraqi Army in cooperation with its British counterpart against members of the Suraye people. Among the events was a commemoration organized in Sydney by…

By Tuma Çelik | former Syriac MP in the Turkish Parliament for Merde (Mardin) During the 1915 Genocide (Sayfo), a vast majority of the Eastern Syriacs remaining in Van were massacred. Survivors fled their ancestral homelands to safer regions. Similarly, the Syriacs of Hakkari sought refuge in Urmia. Following the end of the Genocide and World War I, the surviving Nestorians from Hakkari and surrounding areas began returning to their original homelands.

Originally prepared in Turkish by Tibelya Nahrin for Gazete Sabro  The Suraye (Arameans–Assyrians–Chaldeans) are among the oldest settled peoples of Beth Nahrin (Mesopotamia) and among the first to embrace Christianity. In the decades before the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, they fell victim to the Sayfo Genocide, which was planned by the Ottoman Turks and carried out in collaboration with allied Kurdish tribes.

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For more than a century, the history of modern Turkey has been shaped by a question that remains deeply contested: how should a nation understand the violence, displacement, and demographic transformations that accompanied the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of the Republic? For the Syriac (Aramean–Assyrian–Chaldean) people, one of the oldest Christian communities of Beth Nahrin (Mesopotamia), this question is not merely an academic debate.

Aktuális külpolitikai témákról beszélt a Napindítóban Sayfo Omar, a Migrációkutató Intézet vezető kutatója.