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His followers planned to resign from the Assyrian Levies and to re-group as a militia and concentrate in the north, creating a de facto Assyrian enclave. [24] In spring 1933, Malik Yaqo, a former Levies officer, was engaged in a propaganda campaign on behalf of Assyrian Patriarch Shimun XXI Eshai (or Mar Shimun), trying to persuade Assyrians ...
Jilu Assyrians crossing the Asadabad Pass towards Baqubah, 1918. The Sayfo (Syriac: ܣܲܝܦܵܐ, lit. ' sword '), also known as the Seyfo or the Assyrian genocide, was the mass murder and deportation of Assyrian/Syriac Christians in southeastern Anatolia and Persia's Azerbaijan province by Ottoman forces and some Kurdish tribes during World War I.
Beginning in August 1933 Iraqi soldiers and Kurdish militia killed thousands of Assyrias in Simele (Iraq). The massacre had a big influence on Raphael Lemkin, the jurist who coined the word "genocide. [19] The Simmele Massacre is also commemorated yearly with the official Assyrian Martyrs Day on 7 August.
Seyfo — the mass slaughter of the Assyrian population of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring Qajar Persia by the Ottomans during the 1890s and the First World War. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
In 1915, together with the Armenians and Greeks, they were the victims of ethnically and religiously motivated genocide [1] perpetrated by the Turkish Ottoman Empire and many fled to Europe, the Russian Empire and the United States. Again, they were slaughtered in Iraq in 1933 in the Simele massacre. Even if various names are used to describe ...
He lectured in the military school and achieved the rank of colonel in 1928 and brigadier general in 1933. In August 1933, Sidqi ordered the Royal Iraqi Army to march to the north to crush so-called 'militant Assyrian separatists' in Simele , near Mosul , which led to 3,000 Assyrian civilians being killed in the region in the Simele massacre .
Anti-Assyrian sentiment largely manifested itself towards the end of the Ottoman Empire with the Assyrian genocide, and has continued in varying experiences by country where the indigenous Assyrian homeland lies (Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Iran).
Assyrians primarily lived in the provinces of Hakkari, Şırnak, and Mardin in southeastern Turkey, These areas had sizable Kurdish and Armenian populations. Starting in the nineteenth century, the Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians of eastern Anatolia, including the Hakkari mountains in Van province, were the subject of forced relocations and executions, a possible cause being religious persecution.