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I just read an article in the magazine of ICO, Initiative Christlicher Orient - an organization from central Europe belonging to the Roman Chatholic Church, that he was a few weeks ago in a conference of ICO were he said that he wants to replace our language with Arabic. He said the reason is...

2 days ago I?ve got this from an Email: Shlama (Peace) to all. I have just received the attached information from our homeland. The Kurds have started again, and they must be stopped. Please I implore you to act and act now. We have seen this before, they start with one village at a time...

http://www.assyriatv.org/2012/06/22/assyriska-kvinnoforbundet-i-irak/ Marlene Yalda Sliwa, President of the Assyrian Women Federation in Iraq, talks about the conditions under which the union is working and the difficulties they are facing. The federation was founded by Zawaa 1992. Marlene...

http://www.assyriatv.org/2012/06/16/yonadam-kanna-i-sverige/ Yonadam Kanna in Sweden The Assyrian MP in Iraq Mr Yonadam Kanna, also Secretary General of the Assyrian Democratic Movement (Zawaa), was recently on a visit to Sweden. Here, in a lecture on developments in Iraq, June 5, 2012 at...

The Assyrian Youth Federation of Central Europe (AJM) and the Chaldoassyrian Student and Youth Union signed a partnership agreement to work together to strengthen the contact to Europe and to open up new possibilities for the development of political contacts and projects in Iraq. See here...

Warnings from 2014 .. Iraq being free of minorities and the existence of a hidden project to write a black history Shafaq News/ The representative of the Christian component in the House of Representatives warned of the dangers of "freeing" Iraq from religious minorities by the year 2014, while...

http://www.zowaa.org/Arabic/political%20bureau/pp%20news%20140312.htm Could somebody give me a summary of this text, please? Google translator is bull sh1t.

http://bethnahrin.de/2012/03/12/erdogan-soll-steiger-award-erhalten/ Turkeys PM Erdogan was nominated to get the Steiger Award, an award for openness, humanity, and tolerance. Mail these fckin idiots what you think about that bull sh1t, send them a Mail to office@saschahellen.com

It seems so that a war of Israel with its western partners against Iran is not far away. What would be the consequences for our Assyrians who live in the Middle Eastern states?

The Assyrian Youth Federation of Central Europe will make a youth exchange with the Khoyada d'Yalupe - ChaldoAssyrian Student and Youth Union in Assyria  from 29th March - 7th April. Together with a youth group of ACSSM from North-America we will see our lands, the Akitu parade and many more...

Someone should contact Spielberg to suggest him to mention the Assyrians in this film too. Film director Steven Spielberg and Schindler?s List writer Steven Zaillan are in negotiations to develop a film on the Armenian ?Genocide,? with support from the Armenian National Cinema Center. The...

Turk sings in Assyrian about Seyfo (Genocide against Assyrians in 1914-1918 by the Joung Turks) Türke singt auf Assyrisch über Seyfo (Völkermord an den Assyrern 1914-1918 durch Jungtürken)

This weekend we commemorate Naum Faiq, one of the fathers of the modern Assyrian national movement. Who is Na'um Faiq, and what has he done? - Read here: http://www.atour.com/~people/20010702g.html One of his most favorite poems: "Et'ir Bar Othur" (Awacke, son of Assyria) - See Assyrian and...

Current issues about Assyrians in Iraq discussed in this debate program with Yalda Marokil from the Assyrian Democratic Movement (Zawaa) and Sabri Isho from of Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council (CSAPC) http://www.assyriatv.org/2012/02/02/assyriernas-rattigheter-i-irak/ (in eastern Assyrian)

I am looking for super cool khega music like the song below, so if you have similar songs, please share! :) Tony Gabriel Khega توني جبرائيل خكة

Assyriska FF's official supporters club Zelge Fans take new efforts to transform football matches to a party. Zelges new board talks about its plans for the coming season. Short news about AFF's new acquisitions. Other news related to Assyrian teams outside Sweden...

As we know the Iraqi Art. 125 would garant our people a certain degree of self-governing, which is extreamly important to keep our people/culture in our homeland alive: http://iilhr.org/documents/minorityprotectiuonsiniraqarticle125.pdf But this Art. 125 still needs to be implemented in the...

Who?s the Most Sexiest Assyrian Singer for you? My favorites are Sania Odisho, Flora Simon and Madlen Ishoeva. Theyre damn f@ckin beautiful. Assyrian singer Sonia Odisho interview blooper Assyrian Flora Simon Bayane Deli Lolo - Madlen Ishoeva

From facebook: Dear AAS members, There is an opportunity to gain a PhD in Australia on Cultural Heritage Destruction in Iraq. Can you please spread the news that may be one of our young Assyrian students would be interested! This is a VERY important topic and it would be great to have an...

sotena cehe mesaje حرق وتدمير اماكن المساج وبيع المشروبات Please sing this petition to support the creation of a self-administrated area for indigenous Assyrians to save them from fleeing from their country and protecting themselves in their land...

I?ve got this with an e-mail: > >Dear Friends and Colleagues > > > > As you I am sure you now all know, I am Assyriologist/Mesopotamian > >archaeologist based at the University of Cambridge (UK) and part of the > >international team led by Prof. Timothy Matney of the University of > >Akron...

"The Senate Appropriations Full Committee legislated support for Iraq's indigenous Assyrians, including Chaldeans and Syriacs. The Full Committee supports the Art. 125 process towards the establishment of a province in the Nineveh Plain. [...] The Committee directs the Department of State to...

Stockholm (AINA) -- The Swedish liberal party Folkpartiet voted yes last week during its annual congress to a motion on the rights of Assyrians in Iraq. The motion included language on the implementation of article 125 in the Iraqi constitution, which allows for the creation of an administrative...

Obama: Iraq war will be over by year's end; troops going out of Iraq http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/21/world/meast/iraq-us-troops/ Which effect this move will have on the politics for an Assyrian Administrative Area? Will it be harder for us to make Art. 125 reality? "The Senate Appropriations...

Which Assyrian words have a double letter if you write them in our font? Is there any rule when we have to write a double letter?

After seeing huge protests across the Near and Middle East and North Africa we see now protests in the western world which are getting bigger and bigger. For many people it was no suprice that the first protests appeared in the USA - where the class society is very distinctive. The people there...

Do our church men make any ecumenical work between the different churches of our people? Usually I am not looking for stuff like that, but I am wondering about that since a few days. Have you ever seen such ecumenical work? If yes, what kind of ecumenical work was that, and when was that?

I found that on fb and wanted to share it with you: His Excellency Raabi Yonadam Kanna, Secretary-General of the Assyrian Democratic Movement (Zowaa) and Member of the Iraqi Parliament was today presented with the FRRME (Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East -...

As far as we can see the there are many positive moves for the creation of an Assyrian self-administration according to article 125 of the Iraqi constitution. International Society for Human Rights (ISHR): The ISHR calls for an administrative area for the Christian Assyrians...

Washington, D.C. (09-26-2011) -- The Senate Appropriations Full Committee legislated support for Iraq's indigenous Assyrians, including Chaldeans and Syriacs. The Full Committee supports the Art. 125 process towards the establishment of a province in the Nineveh Plain. Policy submitted by...

Hi there! My brother and his wife want to spend a weekend in London, and they want to visit Assyrian places like churches or culture clubs or so. Can somebody of you give me a tipp what they can visit, with addresses, please?

In my point of view it?s extremly negligent to adjudge someone to death if 7 of 9 attestor take their testimony back.

Since I am looking for news about our ppl in Iraq I find pictures like the two below. Why they do that? I think, if they make a funeral for their dead (aloho mhasalen) they should either put the Assyrian/Chaldean flag on the coffin/casket or no flag.

The Palestinians wanto to make an officially request to become a full member of the UNO - thus a recognized state. The decision depends on the -OK- of the UN Security Council. If just one member of this council brings its veto than the request becomes offizially rejected. The USA has already...

I?ve tryed to find it out, which and how many organizations are members of the AUA. But I?ve found nothing about such info on their website. Can somebody help me out, please?

What do you think, which Zowaanaya could make as new general secretary of Zowaa the best job ?

Hi there! I study social work in Germany and I am thinking about moving to Australia after my study. So I am looking for some "first-hand" information and not something what some statistics say because there is often a difference between statistics and reality. So here are my first questions...

Shlama lokhun :) Since I learn eastern Assyrian I understand it more and more. Sometimes I listen to a song and I understand very much, but sometimes I listen to an other song and I understand nearly nothing. I know that there are several subdialects in eastern Assyrian, but how many do they...

http://www.fubiz.net/2011/08/25/parkour-in-mardin/ Just scroll down and watch the video. It?s in Tur Abdin area, north Assyria, and it shows Assyrian places like the Assyrian monestary Dayro d?ZaHfaran.

As far as i heard there is a united spelling and grammer system in eastern assyrian dialect swadaya. Who made this system, and who controlls it today? And as far as i know there are no articles in the eastern dialect, while we have it in western assyrian. These guys shojld get the suggestion to...

What do you think about that Can we take that serious? http://www.ishtartv.com/en/viewarticle,35337.html

(AINA) -- The Assyrian Genocide Research Center (Seyfo) has accepted an invitation to join the Alliance of Historical Dialogue and Accountability (AHDA) initiative, based at Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights in New York. According to the Institute,     AHDA...

http://news.assyrianchurch.com/california-capital-recognises-assyrian-martyrs-day/1893 http://sacramento.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=22&clip_id=2734 (15:30min) The City of Sacramento, capital of California, has passed a resolution recognising 7 August as Assyrian Martyrs Remembrance...

Can you please tell me which Assyrian apps there are? And if they are available vor Win phones 7 too?

I am curious, so de marun li, eiko ? :)

Assyrian This film should be shown to non-Assyrians! Spread the Word!

http://qolo.de/artikel/kultur/87-seyfo-workshop--assyrischesuryoye-akademiker-aus-der-ganzen-welt-halten-eine-konferenz-ueber-genoz Google Translation from German into English In the last week have focused on the initiative of the International Foundation Inanna Assyrian and academics from...

Dutch Parliament passes a bill demanding Minister of Foreign Affairs Uri Rosenthal to urge the Iraqi government and the EU for recognition and protection of the Assyrians living in the Nineveh Plains. This law has been approved due to intensive lobbying of Assyria Council of Europe (ACE) in the...

http://www.acssm.com/new/?p=146 Can´t wait to see our ppl over there. Who will be with us from AVN? :)

Could you please help me to translate this song? A short summary would be enought, too. Assyrian song for the United Nations

Why there are so many Assyrians who have the word "Younan" (Greek) as family name ?  :blink:

A beautiful song about our nation by Naoum Fayeq - Awake Son of Assyria, Awake (with lyrics) ... it?s in kthawbonoyo dialect Et'ir Bar Othur [with text] Mor Afrem Choir Enschede ܐܬܬܥܝܪ ܒܪ ܐܬܘܪ

I wish all mothers on earth a happy Mother?s Day! :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GIVaCI5zFk&feature=player_embedded#at=139

Assyriska in first place now - do they will make it to first league this year ? What do you think ? http://www.soccerway.com/national/sweden/superettan/2011/regular-season/

Do there are any Assyrians who protest against the KRG in the area where the KRG rules ? Do they are single protesters or do there are also Assyrians who protest in the name of any Assyrian organization ? How looks Zowaas stand regarding these protests?

The Silent Extermination of Iraq?s ?Christian Dogs? Last week an Iraqi Muslim scholar issued a fatwa that, among other barbarities, asserts that ?it is permissible to spill the blood of Iraqi Christians.? Inciting as the fatwa is, it is also redundant. While last October?s Baghdad church attack...

Especially since the reactor catastrophe in Fukushima, Japan the topic about atomic energy becomes hoter and hoter, at least here in Germany: - Many people claim a change from atomic to renewable energy as far as possible. - Two weeks or so ago there was a huge protest here; in one day 250 000...

Hearing on Minorities and Unrepresented Nations Held in European Parliament [...]A hearing on minorities and unrepresented peoples, focusing on Balochistan and Assyrian issues, was held yesterday, 13 April 2011, in the European Parliament by the Subcommittee on Human Rights.[...] Introduced by...

Iraqi lawmakers welcomed their demands, and said that an autonomous Christian region should be based upon ?new administrative grounds that could be supported by external parties hosting Christian refugees,? al-Sumaria TV's website said. http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/04/05/144308.html...

I Miss Such An Appeal From The Leaders Of Our Assyrian Community! An Appeal from the Religious Leaders of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Armenian Catholic Church And The Armenian Evangelical Union Of The Western United States Of America: Easter and the 96th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide...

pt1: Suryoyo part 1/2 (Haye Dagole) pt2: Suryoyo part 2/2 (Haye Dagole)

Hana Said, 55, will never forget the last conversation she had with her 27-year old son, who had gone down to Baghdad to see relatives. She was at home in Karakosh, capital of the predominantly Christian Nineveh Plain in northern Iraq. He was huddled in a side chapel behind a steel door in Our...

Okay guys, we live in the 21th century, in the age of telecommunication via internet and co. Gathering of knowledge/data runs very well, see wikipedia, or the way how facebook became translated into German; by voluneer fb user from Germany. We could have also a platform, e.g. on the website of...

Could somebody please tell me what the following text says? I don?t undertsand something from the google translation. http://zowaa.org/nws/ns7/n270211-3.htm

Sourche: http://www.genocidepreventionnow.org/Home/tabid/39/ctl/DisplayArticle/mid/683/aid/214/Default.aspx The Assyrian Genocide: A Largely Unknown Genocide that was a Product of Ottoman Jihad, as were the Armenian and Greek Genocides Sabri Atman G P N   O R I G I N A L The author is Director...

The highest Turkish curt in Ankara expropriates 52 hectare lands of Mor Gabriel. The Syriac Orthodox monastery has dokuments which prove all its properties and were acknowledged by Ottoman Turks and Kurdish great land owners. But because Turks and Kurds make laws how and when they like and are...

I heard that there is a group which trys to translate Facebook to Assyrian. I did look for it but I didnt find it. Can somebody tell me how I can help translatin FB to Assyrian?

Wherefrom comes the word "malakho" (ܡܲܠܲܟܼܵܐ) ? Does it come from "malko" (ܡܲܠܟܵܐ) ? Or does it have something to do with someone who goes, e.g. "ono malakh-no" (ܐܵܢܵܐ ܡܲܠܲܟܼ ܢܵܐ) ?

I would not use "inshala", not only because it isn´t Assyrian but also because of a religious reason: e.g. if you ask a Muslim if he will go to heaven he says "inshala" (if God wants so). Because they belive if God has a nice day and he like to take you to heaven, than he does, if he has a bad...

Today is the day of Naoum Faiq, one of the founders of the modern Assyrian Movenment. aloho mhasele, rishe hewyo i malkutho. About his life: http://www.atour.com/~people/20010702g.html "Awake, son of Assyria, Awake and see the world how enlightened. The chance is fleeing from us And time is...

(AINA) -- In a ruling issued on January 26, 2011, Turkey's Supreme Court granted substantial parts of St. Gabriel Monastery, an Assyrian Christian religious center established in the 397 A.D. in south-east Anatolia, to the Turkish Treasury. This decision reversed a June, 2009 ruling by the...

ܐܝܟܵܐ ܠܸܗ ܣܪܓܝܣ ܐܓܲܓܲܢ ܗܲܕܝܵܐ؟ ܥܒܼܸܕ ܠܸܗ ܡܢܕܝ ܩܲܐ ܢܵܫܲܢ ܡܢ ܙܒܼܢܵܐ ܕܠܸܠܸܗ ܡܫܬܲܝܠܵܢܵܐ ܕܙܘܙܸܐ ܕܟܘܪܕܵܝܸܐ؟

If you have relatives in Assyria and they wanna study but have not enough money than let them know about this: Assyrians Without Borders hereby announce scholarships for Assyrian students in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Iran and Lebanon. The funds are to be used for studies at university level. Certain...

Washington (AINA) -- On January 20, 2011 The Assyrian Democratic Movement, American Mesopotamian Organization, and the Iraqi Christian Relief Council attended a hearing held by Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. The topic of the hearing was the continued persecution and mass murder of the...

Very interesting article. It showes a good picture of what?s going on in Iraq and what kind of f@ckers many of these American/Iraqi/Kurdish politicians are. Btw, who?s this Ken Timmerman? I like his articles. By Ken Timmerman Members of Congress from a bipartisan human rights panel on...

The Gratitude of the President of Armenia Thirteen representatives of national minorities of Armenia have been awarded by the Gratitude of the President of Armenia. One of the thirteen awarded representatives was the representative of the Assyrian Community of Armenia. Mr A. Abelyan, the...

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The priest Emanuel Youkhana from the ACE in Iraq claims from the west and the iraqi government to call the tings how they are: Christians in Iraq became systematically attacked to drive them out of the land. And the argument that the attacks are against everybody in Iraq is wrong too according...

Christian Retreat - Turkey

http://jhvonline.com/assyrians-in-iraq-face-a-stark-choice-convert-die-or-leave-p10247-96.htm I especially like this part: ?More important than local police forces, what we are trying to achieve is the implementation of Article 125 in the Iraqi Constitution that allows for the implementation...

The Anonymos Movement decided to attack the fax machines of Amazon, PayPal and other companies which distanced itselves from Wikileaks. They call to send Anonymos-letters, Wikileaks-logos, etc. The Anonymos Movement recommends to use a web-fax-service for sending these faxes. An Assyrian from...

WOW WOW WOW guys, what´s going on here? :D For everybody who doesn´t know the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, here it is: http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/drip.html It declarates for example that indigenous peoples have the right of self-determination and...

As far as I can see there is a move regarding the Assyrian Question; Germany is part of the UN Security Council (strongest part of the UN) and they will discuss this topic there to see how the UN can contribute something for the security of the persecuted Christians in Iraq. Furthermore they...

The CDU, Germany´s current coalition party, claims action from the government to save Christians in Iraq. This claim became accepted by the government.  Germany is part of the UN Security Council and they will discuss this topic there to see how the UN can contribute something for the security...

Chicago (AINA) -- Michael Corbin, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of State, met with the Iraqi Christian Relief Council, representatives of the Assyrian Democratic Movement and Assyrian American National Coalition of Illinois on Tuesday, December 7. The meeting was spurred by...

The Assyria Council of Europe (ACE) have undertaken a fact finding mission to assess the ethnic minority representation in the Iraqi police force in the Nineveh Plains, within the Ninawa Governorate. The Nineveh Plains has become the hub of minority migration in Iraq, with ethnic minority IDPs...

Assyrians Without Borders (AWB) recently launched its Christmas campaign, which includes water, electricity and wheelchairs to the Assyrians in Assyria. Please support this campaign to support YOUR people in need and to allow them a PEACEFUL Christams. Focus: Give Light to a Dark Assyria In...

The Assyria Council of Europe has informed Emine Bozkurt, an MEP from the Netherlands, about the ongoing discrimination against the Assyrians in Iraq. ACE has urged Emine Bozkurt to take up this issue with Ad Melkert, who is currently the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the...

28th Nov. in Cologne with 600-800 people Video: http://gloria.tv/?media=113312

According this card, there were everywhere Assyrians in North Iraq, and in the most parts there lived not one single Kurd: Sourc of Picture: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2006/nov/30/the-plight-of-christians-in-iraq/ Now a Kurd trys to tell me that in 1922 there were 57.000...

Let´s collect some of it here. If possible with short describtion about sex and the meaning. This could be useful for relatives or friends who run away from their Assyrian identity, than they can give their childrean at least Assyrian names. hmmm there are some ... Nuhro - male, holy light or...

Hasyo Hazail Saume (Brussels, Belgium) Hasyo Hazail Saume mamlo bu demo in Brüssel cala Mshihoye du iraq 13 11 2010.mpg Hasyo Mor Dioskoros Benyamin Atas (Stockholm, Sweden) Hasyo Mor Dioskoros Benyamin Atas mamlo svenska Syrian Orthodox kristna i Iraq Qashisho Shemun Demir (G?tersloh...

We can use this topic for spelling and grammar questions. I want to start with the questions: How do I have to write - dakhi: ܕܲܟܼܝ or ܕܲܚܝ - khazikh: ܚܲܙܝܟܼ or ܚܲܙܲܟܼ ?

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=100212673384545 For those who have no fb account, here is the description: I can not get over the recent church massacre in Iraq and it makes me sick to my stomach to know that our people back home are literally living in fear and being killed for no...

As far as we know we are too less in Iraq to be a seriously political player and to be able to claim and work for (an) administrative unit(s). So we have to be more over there. But how can we do that except by creating baby production companies like Kurds do ? We need good return plans for our...

There will be several demonstrations in many European states under the motto "Stop the genocide on the Christian Assyrians in Iraq!" ... - There will be demonstrations in Berlin, Hamburg, Gütersloh, Augsburg, Gießen, Wiesbaden, Essen, Munich, Heilbronn (All in Germany) and all on the same day...

There will be a demonstration in Brussels on 13. Nov. Assyrians from different European states will participate in this demo. I just saw it on Suroyo Tv.

Please follow the link below and follow the instructions to send a letter to the President of the European Parliament regarding the church attacks against Assyrian people in Iraq: http://www.seyfocenter.com/index.php?sid=2&aID=282

"We're Angered, Disgusted, & Tired of the Continuous persecution of Assyrians in Assyria(Iraq)! As a protest to the recent Massacre of our people in our church in Baghdad, we're going Downtown this sunday in numbers! We need to stop the geno...cide of Assyrians!!! We need ur support! PEACEFUL...

"We're Angered, Disgusted, & Tired of the Continuous persecution of Assyrians in Assyria(Iraq)! As a protest to the recent Massacre of our people in our church in Baghdad, we're going Downtown this sunday in numbers! We need to stop the geno...cide of Assyrians!!! We need ur support! PEACEFUL...

Christianity Rests on Assyrian Ground By Augin Kurt Journalist Have you ever wondered why the Assyrians as a people are among the most devoted Christians? In fact, Christianity?s basic foundation is so deeply ingrained in our lives that we often have felt as one with our faith. But why is...

ܐܸܢ ܐܲܬܼܪܲܢ ܚܲܐ ܓܲܐ ܚܸܬܵܐ ܒܬܗܵܘܸܐ ܒܝܕܵܬܲܢ، ܥܘܿܕܝܟܼ ܕܸܡܘܿܩܪܲܬܝܵܐ ܐܲܘ ܡܲܠܟܘܬܼܵܐ؟

Can somebody explain me the vowels in eastern Assyrian please? As far as I know there are some vowels more than in western Assyrian and than in other languages.

http://www.petitiononline.com/assyrian/petition.html In support of the imprisoned Assyrians in Syria Editorial of the website Furkono 9 October 2010 We condem the imprisonment of the two Assyrians recently in the city of Qamishly in Syria for raising the Assyrian flag during a party event. We...

I write sometimes in an German internet forum about politics about our people and the need of a save zone. There are some Kurds who write some shit but it?s easy to see that they are idiots :D I note that Germans nearly never attend in such discussions but at least someone brings this topic to...

ܡܘܕܝ ܥܲܘܕܝܬܘܢ ܘܲܐ ܐܸܢ ܝܲܕܝܬܘܢ ܕܡܲܝܬܝܬܘܢ ܒܫܸܒܬܵܐ ܚܝܬܵܐ؟

ܐܵܢܵܐ ܩܲܪܸܢ ܦܘܠܚܵܢܵܐ ܟܸܢܫܵܢܵܝܵܐ ܗܘ ܦܵܠܚܸܢ ܚܲܔܲܐ ܓܘ ܒܸܝܬ ܦܘܠܚܵܐ ܩܲܐ ܕܗܵܘܸܠܝ ܚܲܔܲܐ ܙܘܙܸܐ ܠܩܪܵܝܵܐ ܕܝܕܝ ܗܘ ܠܒܲܣܝܡܘܬܵܐ ܕܝܕܝ.  :) ܝ

As far as I know there is a law in Iraq which says that every military forces have to be one with the force of the Iraqi central government. But the Peshmerga are still speperated while the Zowaa force became canceled or became one part of this central Iraqi government force. So why the Kurds...

tahenyotho myaqro Nuri! :) Brussels (AINA) -- Journalist and author Nuri Kino  has been awarded the European Parliament's Journalist Prize for covering important European problems and promoting a greater understanding for EU's institutions and politics. This award comes a fortnight after the...

What do you see in this picture? Or how would you interprete this picture?

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I know this is church stuff but it´s political church stuff which could has a huge (political) impact on our people in Iraq. Okay, I just read an interview with Louis Sako about his initiative of applaying a Middel East Synod and said wow to a few of his answers. I will try to translate it...

A few days ago 2 Assyrians were arrested in Syria because they did wave a flag with Assyrian national symbols. http://www.furkono.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9597&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

I saw we have an Arabic forum here so what do you think about an ASSYRIAN from on ASSYRIAN Voice Net? I see it as a good means to advance our language and font. I see here are some ppl who can write our font on the pc. It would be great if every Assyrian with Assyrian font on his/her pc has the...

http://video.milliyet.com.tr/Dunyayi-soke-eden-dayak-goruntuleri_1_43996.htm?auto=1

It looks like that these Syriacs become more and more active in changing facts about our ppl in the internet. Til today I saw mostly German internet articles where they changed "Assyrian" to "Syriac" and now I see again an article about the Assyrian Genocide Monument in Australia with this sh1t...

Writing Assyrian is easier than before, on the pc. In the past you had to learn the letters + how to connect the letters. Today the Assyrian font is available on pc, so if you write in Assyrian on your pc you just have to type the letters on your keyboard and the pc connects the letters in the...

Is there any report or so that documente what happened to Assyrians since 2003 in the Iraq War?

http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&entry_id=3292

b khzeyti Sonia Odisho raba shapirta la  :blush2: la khzeli shikla tawa go nawla bas go owa video masitun khazitun la tawa: Assyrian singer Sonia Odisho interview blooper

Do You know "danoke" ? My nephew got his first tooth a few days ago and my mother prepared Himse (don?t know how it?s calld in any other language) and barley and threw it over his head. And this is called "danoke." Do there are ppl here who know that?

Does anyone know the book "SHARRUKIN ? The True King" by Hanna Hanna Hajjar ? Is it good? If yes, better than "The Assyrian" by Nicholas Guild? I read that the autor of this book wants to produce the book as film: http://www.assyriatimes.com/engine/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3434

Could somebody please tell me which video editing software is good and for free? I need it for making simple videos - it would good if it would be user-friendly too. In the past I made such videos with Movie Maker, it ran very good but since I have Windows 7 it is not possible to add audio...

I am looking for a song of Juliana Jendo with the title "twaru aqayde" ...it?s a song in western Assyrian and it should be in a good sound quality. She sings this song in this video in 1:55 minute: Paki Holvander u Juliana Jendo Live twaru a qayde I hope there is somebody who can help me!

U2 & Pavarotti - Miss Assyria

Sure, there are not enough of our people who care about their nation but there are also many of our people who work hard and do great work to help us and to attract interest, such like ACE, ISDP, ADM, AAS, AWB, Seyfo Center, many Assyrian federations in the diaspora and many other Assyrian...

I love this clip, its song is very nice and patriotic :) Skender Danho mafsehu Gudo d nuhomo in Suroyo tv

What do You think about an adoption of the articles from our western Assyrian to our eastern Assyrian dialect? We have 3 articles in western Assyrian; u = The (male), e.g. - u bayto (the house), - Hzeli u bayto shafiro (I have seen the nice house), - u Sargon bu bayto yo (Sargon is at home) i...

http://pressemitteilung.ws/node/224824 Shortly before the EU elections the court in Midyat decided in favor of the Syriac Orthodox monastery. Now, the highest Turkish court set aside the verdict for the monastery. f@cking Turks and Kurds

ܡܝܡܪܐ ܚܝܠܢܐ ܡܢ ܢܝܢܘܣ ܐܚܐ Ninos Aho the great Assyrian Poet at the Unveiling. (Seyfo)

Great speech! in the Assyrian Mesopotamia Association in Gütersloh, Germany Abuna Shamun Demir am Tag der Märtyrer, 7. August 1/4

http://www.unpo.org/images/members/unpo_assyria_profile_sept2009.pdf Really interesting

Last Sunday was a seminar by Aryo Makko about the Assyrian identity of the Syriac Orthodox Church. Aryo Makko did study politics and history and works now at the historical institut of the University of Stockholm. Here is the video playlist...

I was just one time in Tur Abdin and visited some villages, monasteries and landscapes in 2008. I plan to drive to Zalin (qamishli) or to the Akitu festival in Nuhadra in the next year. I hope that everything will run well so that I can realize this plan :) Where have You already been in Assyria ?

Infos about how to support Seyfo Center can be seen here: http://seyfocenter.se/index.php?sid=9 Seminar in Augsburg, Germany: http://www.bethnahrin.de/Startseite/100501SabriAtmanAugsburg.html Seyfo Center meets with Los Angeles County Elected Official, The Hon. Mike D. Antonovich...

NEW YORK (AP) — An American Indian lacrosse team will not be allowed entry into England for the world championship of the sport the Iroquois helped invent unless members accept U.S. or Canadian passports, the British government said Wednesday. The Iroquois Nationals team won’t be attending the...

Jesus film in western Assyrian (Suryoyo) - Turoyo dialect Der Jesus Film in Aramäisch (Suryoyo) . In der Sprache Jesu Christi Teil 1/12

http://www.assyriska.se/article.php?ar=2852

I remember when an Assyrian from my city did marry a girl from Tur Abdin, he told me sometimes went some men to him and asked him ... ... "aydarbo kibokh gawrat Hdo marke? komaydat u dahwo du athro menan..." (how can you marry one from here? You take the gold of the/(our) land away from us)...

look at 1:51 :) Shakira - Waka Waka [Official Music Video] HD

I see so many Assyrians who identify themselves more and more with their states of residence by the WC. I see Assyrian children who get Germany flags painted on their faces by their parents, waving Brazilian, Argentinian or what else flags, and so on. Even these children, who don?t are...

ܫܠܵܡܐܵ ܚܲܘܪܲܢܐܸ! ܡܘ ܥܲܘܕܸܬܘܢ ܒܐܲܢܝ ܝܲܘܡܐܸ ܒܲܣܝܡܐܸ؟ ܕܲܚܝ ܥܲܘܕܸܬܘܢ̣ܟܘܢ ܝܲܘܡܐܵ ܒܲܣܝܡܐܵ؟ ܐܵܢܐܵ ܠܲܙܸܡ ܝܲܠܦܸܢ  :ranting:

I made this video: The Rights of Assyrians - UN Declaration I had the song of this video from an video of the user "AssyrianMelodies." In his video was a man who sang this song but his face was dark and it was not clear who it is and  whether he really sang this song. Now I got this comments...

wow wow and WOW, great social work about the Assyrian society! Introduction In this paper I will address the question of the Assyrian ethnic identity from a historical perspective. We will briefly examine the replacement of the Ottoman Empire with the Turkish republic as well as analyse the...

By reading this topic http://www.assyrianvoice.net/forum/index.php?topic=38892.0 I became thoughtful about our culture. I read there are some who write THIS is our custom, the other says No, THIS is our custom..... The next say "I was talking with my grandmother, she told me...." the others say...

I did read in an other forum that Ishtar TV stopped to broadcast and the reason is alleged the contract of Ishtar TV and its satellite contractor is finished. And now the satellite contractor doesn´t want to continue the contract with Ishtar TV because of its logo and some other things. But the...

1. We mostly pronounce some letters in an other way: o -> a / f -> p (ܦ) / H -> kh (ܚ) and sometimes th -> t (ܚܬܐ -> ܚ̣ܬܐ) So if I write ... ܫܠܡܐ I would read it "shlomo" and You "shlama" ܫܦܝܪܐ I would read it "shafiro" and You "shapira" ܚܘܒܐ I would read it "Hubo" and You "khuba" We have the...

Do You know that? I once heard about that but I don?t know anything about such a world cup. Do You guys have any info about that?

Stockholm (AINA) -- Freelance journalist Nuri Kino and Kajsa Norell, from Swedish Radio, are the Swedish winners of the prestigious European Parliament's Journalist Prize 2010, for their reports on corruption in the EU assistance program to Turkey. The European Parliament's Journalist Prize is...

The Psycholinguist Sabine Stoll of the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in  Leipzig said: ?A language is more than a means to communication. It shows the intercultural background of its people. It is tradition and close connected with the thinking, the usages and the art...

shlomo a?laykhu ahunone u ahwothe! Our language is often classified as Aramaic or Syriac. Also by Assyrian thinking Assyrians. While we know Syriac comes from Syrian and this comes from Assyrian. To Aramaic: It is true, we speak Aramaic and have the Aramaic grammar but we don?t speak pure...

Here is the playlist: http://www.youtube.com/user/HudroAshuroyoGT#p/c/430780BB1FD6EFCD The conference is in English, German, Turkish and Assyrian It´s about this event: Assyrian Genocide Discussed in The European Parliament http://www.aina.org/news/20100430013812.htm

http://www.youtube.com/user/HudroAshuroyoGT#p/a/u/0/QhyHBM1IyI4 ܡܶܠܐܶ ܚܰܟܝܡܐܶ ܡܐܶ ܣܰܒܪܝ ܐܰܬܡܰܢ، ܐܘ ܡܶܫܬܰܝܠܳܢܐܳ ܕܣܶܝܦܐܳ ܣܶܢܬܶܪ، ܒܘ ܚܘܕܪܐܳ ܐܫܘܪܳܝܐܳ ܕܒܶܝ̣ܬ ܢܰܗܪܝܢ ܒܓܘܬܰܪܣܠܐܳ، ܐܰܠܡܰܢܝܐܰ mele hakime me Sabri Atman, u meshtaylono d Seyfo Center, bu hudro ashuroyo d beth nahrin b g?tersloh, almanya...

Very interesting ... Since 2003, with the US-led invasion of Iraq the Assyrian community has been under constant murder, attacks and threats. It?s been reported by aid organisations that more than 2000 Assyrians have now been killed in the war. It?s been seven years since and the Iraqi...

Do the whole police, army and other security forces and all the factories/companies belong to Iraqi or Kurdish parties ? And do the Iraqi police has the possibility to investigate in the Kurdish controlled area?

Part 1: Assyrian Seyfo/Genocide Documetation Part 1 Part 2: Assyrian Seyfo/Genocide Documetation Part 2

http://www.boycott-turkey.org/ The goal of the boycott is bring economic pressure to the Republic of Turkey by boycotting Turkish made goods and tourism to Turkey. The boycott is initiated to compel the Republic of Turkey to clean up its Human Rights Record by ending:     * The denial of the...

A Seyfo Commemoration took place last sunday in our Assyrian house of culture in Gütersloh, Germany. Here is the playlist: http://www.youtube.com/user/HudroAshuroyoGT#p/c/B3B15ED5E36F6905 The Turkish Human Rights activist and chairwoman of the Izmir Council of Peace Zeynep Tozduman and the...

http://www.themesopotamian.org/genocideprotestflier.pdf When: 7 May 2010 Where: Turkish Embassy, 43 Belgrave Square, London, SW1X 8PA Time: 9 AM - 1 PM Other: Please contact me at mardean@shlama.co.uk if you have any questions Facebook: ?Christian Genocide Protest...

Why Armenia doesn?t recognize the Assyrian Genocide? Shouldn?t they be the first who recognizes it? Did Assyrians (who live in Armenia) ever ask Armenia for recognition?

Do You belong to or know an Assyrian Youth organisation/federation which has a youtube channel? If yes, here is the channel of AJM: http://www.youtube.com/user/AJMeV (Channel of the Assyrian Youth federation of Central Europe) It would be nice if these channels add themselves as friends...

DEPUTY mayor Anwar Khoshaba has received death threats over his support of the Assyrian genocide monument. Cr Khoshaba told last week?s monthly council meeting he and his family had been threatened and that he had reported the threats to police. ?This is not a joke,? he said. ?My children...

Okaaayy my clock says it´s right now, AKITO BRIKHO L KULKHUN !!  :wavetowel: ^_^ Assyrian New Year 6760 (Advertisment 2010) [Assyrian] Wilson Eshay - Kha'b Nissan

Maliki's forces moves against winning Sunni candidates At least four Sunni Muslim candidates who appear to have won parliamentary seats on the winning ticket of secular leader Ayad Allawi have become targets of investigation by security forces reporting to the narrowly defeated Iraqi Prime...

SABRI ATMAN IN THE STATES. Take the opportunity to educate yourselves on our history, prosperity, and future. Sponsored by Diyarbakir Tur Abdin Assyrian Association (DTAA)

ܐܬܘܪܝܐ ܚܕ̄ܬܐ ܡܠܒܐ ܕܢܘܪܐ، ܡܥܘܡܩܐ ܕܥܘܡܩܐ، ܡܬܚܘܬܐ ܕܩܝܐ، ܡܠܦܦܐ ܕܛܘܪܐ، ܡܢ ܗܡܝܡܢ ܕܥܝܒ̣ܟܝ ܫܡܝܐ، ܐܬܘܪܝܐ ܚܕ̱ܬܐ ܒܪܐ ܠܗ. ܡܢ ܝܘܩܪܘܬܐ ܕܐܠܦܐ ܕܫܢܐ، ܡܟܦܢܐ ܘܨܗܘܐ ܘܣܢܝܩܘܬܐ، ܡܕܘܓܠܐ ܕܬܪܝܚ ܡܢ ܬܓܪܐ ܕܢܝܫܐ ܘܐܘܡܬܐ، ܐܕܝܘܡ ܦܪܩ ܠܗ. ܩܐ ܣܠܒܢܐ ܕܗܩܘܝܬܐ، ܩܐ ܙܠܡܢܐ ܕܟܠܝ̄ܗ̄ܝ̄ ܐܡܘܬܐ، ܫܠܡܘ݀ܝ ܝܠܗ ܓܘܠܠܐ ܘܒܘܡܒܐ. ܘܩܐ ܣܪ̣ܒܢܐ ܙܘܕܐ ܐܝܬ...

I am looking for a song, I think it?s named 'brat oomta' and it?s from Evan Agassi. Can sombody help me, please?

ONLINE PETITION: Send a message to President Obama and the US Congress - Adopt the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples NOW! To the petition: http://www.petition2congress.com/2/2643/un-declaration-on-rights-indigenous-peoples/ What kind of land that calls itself free, can deny the...

Shlomo a?laykhu / Shlama alokhin ! If we want to say the plural form of a word we put an e in the end of this word, e.g. aryo - arye. But there are sometimes words which are totally changed in the plural form, e.g. bayto - bote (house/houses) or athto - neshe (woman/women). Do You know other...

There was a seminar last Sunday about Assyrian History in our Assyrian house of culture in Gütersloh, Germany. Speakers were Mesa Jajan (M.A. Assyriology, University Leiden, Holland) and Sanherib Demir (Historian, University Bielefeld, Germany). The seminar was organized by AJM (Assyrischer...

George Makdessi is his name and I heard he comes from Assyriska?s trainees. http://lt.se/sport/1.746997-chelsea-vill-ha-assyriskas-supertalang

Shlomo a?laykhu! Does anybody know if we Assyrians are in the UN list of Indigenous Peoples? I found nothing in google.

marke - me harke (from here) tokh - tolokh (come) sokh - solokh (go) ged-shem?at - g-shem?at (you will hear) Do You know more short cuts in our common speech ?

We often have different words for one word in foreign languages. E.g.: Herder - baqoro (herder of cows) & ru?yo (herder of sheeps) Do You know more examples?

I have a question because of the word "here" in eastern Assyrian. I always hear the word lakha to "here" but I heard from a friend that it´s akha. He gave me this example: come here = talokh l-akha it is here = akha ile The l stands for to. And the phrase talokh l-akha means literally "come...

I think we should keep our language clean as clean as possible. We can use some foreign words for such words like Bluetooth or software (words which You can not translate directly into Assyrian) but we should not give things foreigen words if we already have our own words for them. Our...

ܡ̈ܢܝ ܡ̤ܢ̈ܟܱܘܢ ܓܘ ܐ̈ܬܱܪܐ̈ ܝܘܐ̈? ܕ̈ܟܱܝ ܝܘܐ̈? ܝܬܟܱܘܢ ܚܐ̈ ܒ̤ܝܬܐ̈ ܬ̈ܡܐ̈? ܗ̤ܫ ܝܬܟܱܘܢ ܐ̤ܩ̈ܪܬܱܐ̈ ܬ̈ܡܐ̈?

Why You east speakers pronounce the two dots above a letter as a (we pronounce it in west as o) & a dot above and a dot under a letter as a ...? Why dont You make a difference in the pronouncing of these vokals ?

I speak a western dialect named Turoyo. The more I am thinking about my dialect the more I see that its mixed with other western dialects or even with eastern dialects. E.g. 'They buy a car for themselves': I say sometimes sauni-len radayto? and sometimes I say sauni elaye radayto? and...

If You know some you can share it here. - Ganove (German) - Ganovo (Assyrian) - Meaning: crook (criminal) - Pardeysa (Assyrian) - Par(a)d e ys a (e) (English) (as we know the vowels are very variable in our font) Do You know some other of such words ?

I am looking for the lyrics of 'aturaya khata' by Ninos Aho. (If possible, with English translation) Can somebody help me, please ?

Stockholm (AINA) -- Assyrians Without Borders (AWB), based in Sweden, has announced its education scholarship program for Assyrians residing in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. Students residing in those countries are eligible for scholarships. "The importance of education among the...

This song was created because of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the early 90s. It has its name from the occupied capital Sarajevo: U2 & Pavarotti - Miss Sarajevo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh_AQUYvRvg Lyrics...

The Assyrian version of Miss Sarajevo by U2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS6leka--XM Look at the video describtion and you will get all needed information to support our people in need.

At first I want to meantion, we just live in freedom only if we have an own state. As long as we don´t haven one we will always be slaves of others. In the last days I watched a documentation about Chinas authors. One of them was Jiang Rong and he told something about his famous book "Wolf...

According to the book "The Right to Self-Dertimination of Nations" by Dr. Günter Decker we can define a Naion in 4 ways: 1. definition - objective criteria: - connected territory - same language - same religion - same culture - same history - same biological ancestry (race) - same national...

http://www.bethmardutho.org/support/meltho/download/ ܫܠܡܐ ܐܠܚܢ! ܡܕܝ ܝܬ ܘܗ ܡܕܝ ܠܐ ܝܬ? ܕܚܝ ܝܘܐ ܝܘܡܐ ܕܕܚܘܢ?  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1eUYtBtgMI St. Mary Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church in East Tarzana was destroyed by fire on October 16, 2009. The fire started at appoxomately 6:30PM. The flames were probably 40-50 feet high, I could feel the intense heat as I was recording this video...

I will try to explain a little bit why so many of our people have this bad characteristic properties which we don´t like and tell a little bit about our national condition. In the end I will try to make a forecast for our future in reference to this. Why many of us are like they are ? A...

London (AINA) -- A motion in the British parliament was put forth today calling for an investigation of the targeted assassinations of Assyrians in Iraq's Kurdish north (AINA 10-17-2008, 10-17-2008). The motion, introduced by Edward Leigh and signed by five others, reads as follows:     That...

To: all who has any connection with human rights and journalist security Subject: threaten to kill and burning journalist car ( Baxtyar Salih Saeed ) I am which my name written and signed below an free and independent journalist from Kurdistan region in iraq, Erbil city. It is for many years...

I often hear such kind of sentences like "Human is Human" "Christ is Christ" "all Humans are equal" (especially if Assyrians want to or would marry a non Assyrian) Of course, all humans are in a physical view equal. But the human is more than a piece of meat, the human has a soul. It´s natural...

Is everything all right with them over there? I heard that there were big overflows and earthquakes with hundreds of victims ... Does anybody has infos about them?

Sex is a big tabu topic in our community. But I think it´s very important to speak about that. Men and women want sex, independently whrther they are Assyrian or not :) In our society it´s like in the Muslim society (don´t know exactly how it is under our Assyrians in North America and...

Could it be that east dialect speakers often don´t pronounce the letter y if there is an e in front of the written y ? E.g. you say in the east dialect sepa, beta, (b)shena, suret, atureta ... But all these words are written with the letter y: seypa, beyta, (b)sheyna, sureyt, atureyta ... We...

part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFKSI2dPnkQ part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUT670jtJkg part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZzaJtoEjHA

An Assyrian in my city has a firm which produce busar?e. I think east dialect speakers call them zize. Here are the new advertising films of his product :D Clip 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwW9dH4Zw6A&feature=channel_page Clip 2a...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPAsLOem5c0  :clap:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Txmtw7qgYc