Like a sparring prizefighter, the name "Boxer" may have come from how this medium-sized, short-haired breed uses its powerful front legs when playing or defending itself. Loyal, courageous, and always up for a good game, Boxers never shy away from showing off their silly side.
(AINA) -- "We have made a clean sweep of the Armenians and Assyrians of Azerbaijan" -- Those were the words of Djevdet Bey, the governor of Van Province in Ottoman Turkey, who on April 24, 1915 lead 20,000 Turkish soldiers and 10,000 Kurdish irregulars in the opening act of the genocide of Assyrians, Armenians and Greeks.
Each year on April 24th, the Armenians, Syriac-Assyrians, and Chaldeans commemorate the Ottoman Empire's genocide of Christians in its lands during World War I. The genocide led to the displacement and killings of more than one and a half million Armenians and hundreds of thousands of Syriac, Assyrians, Chaldeans, and their transformation into minorities who are spread around the world.
The Family First Party recognises the 1915-1923 Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocides and calls upon the Australian Government to join with dozens of other nations, including our ally the United States, to do the same. The genocide began under the cover of the Gallipoli campaign and Australian PoWs were among the first-hand witnesses to the mass killing of some 2.5 million Christians.
By Kamaran Aziz
In a powerful address during the National Prayer Breakfast Day Ceremony held in Erbil on Wednesday, Mar Awa III, Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East and the Middle East, lauded the Kurdistan Region as a beacon of religious coexistence and democratic values in Iraq and the broader region.
Baghdad (AP) -- The death of Pope Francis has sent shockwaves through Iraq's Christian community, where his presence once brought hope after one of the darkest chapters in the country's recent history. His 2021 visit to Iraq, the first ever by a pope, came after years of conflict and displacement.
By Paul Antonopoulos
One is considered a national hero in Greece for helping in the liberation struggle from Ottoman slavery, while the other is remembered as the Turkish genocider of over two million Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians. George Karaiskakis was born in 1780 in Mavromati in Central Greece. At the age of 15, Karaiskakis left his adoptive parents and became a bandit.
Marking twelve years since the abduction of the Bishops of Aleppo, Boulos Yazigi (Greek Orthodox) and Youhanna Ibrahim (Syriac Orthodox), the Patriarchs of Antioch have issued a joint statement renewing their appeal for answers and justice, and placing the case at the center of their Paschal prayers and concerns.
Kultepe Kanesh-Karum, one of the most important archaeological sites in Turkey and known as "the birthplace of Anatolian history," has entered its 77th year of continuous excavation. As the dig unfolds in the heart of central Turkey, new insights continue to emerge, including linguistic revelations that connect the ancient world to our everyday speech.
By Dean Kalimniou
A few months ago, I was driving to the Assyrian New Year Festivities with my family. My wife, who is a member of that tribe, was playing a particularly patriotic and militant Assyrian song on the radio.
Sydney -- In the lead-up to the 110th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, Parramatta City Council officially recognised the Ottoman Empire's 1915-1923 crimes against Christian Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks as Genocide, reported the Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC-AU).
As peace is restored across southeastern Turkey, Chaldeans, Catholic Assyrians who were forced to leave their village in the 1990s due to terrorist attacks, are returning in growing numbers to their ancestral home at the foot of Mount Cudi in the Silopi district of Şırnak province.