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108 Years Since the Assyrian Genocide

This genocide is now considered an honour and a joy for all of Turkey, Kurds and Arabs. The Assyrian genocide took place between 1915 and 1921 in the same context and manner as the genocide against the Greeks and Armenians.

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WE DON’T FORGET! 108 years ago the Genocide of the Assyrians began

By Jandark Petros

24.04.2023

WE DON’T FORGET our ancestors who were slaughtered, exiled and disappeared by the bloodthirsty Ottoman Mustafa Kemal in alliance with the Kurdish “Çetes“. WE DON’T FORGET these facts! They carried out religious ethnic cleansing of the Assyrian indigenous peoples to take over our land.

The Assyrians are the indigenous peoples in Mesopotamia. The number of Assyrians murdered in this genocide committed against the Assyrians by the Ottoman state and in alliance with the Kurds along with other armed and allied Muslim peoples including Arabs between 1915 and 1921 is estimated at 750,000 Assyrians.

This genocide is today considered an honour and joy for all of Turkey, Kurds and Arabs. The genocide of the Assyrians was carried out between 1915 and 1921 in the same context and manner as the genocide against the Greeks and Armenians. Historically, the common enemy of the Greeks and Assyrians is the Turks, Kurds and other Muslim peoples.

They tried to exterminate the Assyrians by all means and methods! Thousands of massacres were carried out against us. They tried to take away our name, our identity and our culture. But we will never give up and the land of Assyria will return to us and we will embrace its holy land.

They do not know that we are like a grain of mustard seed, they cannot crush us because Christ is with us. The name of Ashur will remain and the flag of Assyria will always be raised.

We are here despite the occupation.

This is where the world began and this is where it will end.

Photo: The Assyrian Genocide 1915-1921 monument in Athens-Greece

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Jandark Petros

Jandark Petros: She is a poet and writer from occupied Assyria.
She comes from the Hakkari province (Hakkari), with parents of Assyrian descent from there. Hakkari is under Turkish occupation. Its inhabitants became Kurds after the extermination of the Assyrians, the indigenous population, by Turks and Kurds, and the forced expulsion of the remaining.
She grew up in occupied Assyria and suffered from the Kurdish, Arab, Iranian, and Turkish occupation of her homeland, as Assyrian land was divided among these invaders.
In occupied Assyria, she graduated from the university from the military department "Operational Research."

She received many awards for her poems from the Union of Greek Writers.

She speaks her mother tongue, Assyrian, and speaks Greek, English, and Arabic.

The Assyrians were the first to embrace Christianity in the East in the first century A.D.

She is a writer specializing in Assyrian and Greek national issues, highlighting the challenges they face in preserving their national identity.

Regarding the Assyrian issue, her writings focus on highlighting Assyrian identity and resisting the distortion of Assyrian history and the erasure of the national identity of the Assyrian people, including their culture, heritage, language, and geographical presence after the Islamic invasion of Assyria in the 7th century A.D.

Regarding Greek issues, she deals with the cultural heritage and national identity of Greece, emphasizing the continuation of this heritage in the face of contemporary challenges, whether political or cultural.

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