1977 blev det så kallade Raggarbråket i Södertälje startskottet för svenska ungdomar i staden att visa sitt missnöje med de assyriska invandrarnas närvaro. Några år senare gick det ett rykte som sade att assyriska ungdomar hade burit T-shirt med texten "Vi ska ta över...
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Assyrian News in Focus 2017-04-18
Turkiet: President Erdogan vann folkomröstningen med knapp majoritet, 51.4 %, dock ej i storstäder som Istanbul, Ankara och Izmir. Anklagas av oppositionen för valfusk och EU-observatörer talar om obstruktion i valkampanjen. Det anmärkningsvärda är ändå att kurdiska...
Assyrian News in Focus 2017-04-11
Sverige: Terrorattentatet i Stockholm i fredags var det allvarligaste mot landet. Sammanfattning jakten på terroristen Rakhmat Akilov, mediernas rapportering, politiker och allmänhets reaktioner, beredskap och säkerhetsövningar, samt stor manifestation på söndagen för...
Ahiqar Rashid: No Assyrian coordination in Geneva
Ahiqar Rashid, Assyrian representative of the so-called Moscow-platform,comments the ongoing Syria negotiations in Geneva 5 (23-31 March). He can not see any coordination between different Assyrian representatives. He also got the impression that both the regime and...
Introducing Ashlay Nissaba in Iraqi Assyria
Recently the editor-in-chief of the Assyrian journal Ashlay Nissaba, malfono Yusuf Begtas, vusiter Iraqi Assyria in order to introduce the journal among Assyrian intellectuals and seek their cooperation in reviving the language. He was accompanied by malfono Habib...
ADO leader: PYD is desperately seeking legitimacy
The leader of Assyrian Democratic Organization (ADO) Mr. Gabriel Moushe strongly denounces the decisions of Kurdish PYD self rule to close the office of ADO in Hassakeh on Wednesday Mars 15. He considers these acts as a sign of desperate search for legitimacy from,...
Assyrian HDP member arrested in Midyat, Turkey
On Thursday, March 16, 2017 at 06:20 o’clock local time Turkish police stormed the home of the Assyrian activist Yuhanon Aktas in Midyat and arrested him accused of membership in the PKK. Aktas is an active member of the Kurdish HDP and the Chairman of the federation...
Dr. Srood about Assyrian demands post ISIS
On March 6, 2017, seven Assyrian political parties and organizations signed a joint list with ethnical and national demands of the Assyrians from Bagdad and Arbil. Later on the number of organizations increased to eleven. But the different Assyrian churches have still...
Dr. Muna Yaku about Kurdish assaults on Assyrian ethnicity
The Assyrian lawyer Dr. Muna Yaku, Professor of law at Salahaddin University in Arbil, gave in mid-February a lecture in Jihan University in Arbil about the treatment of the KRG towards the Assyrians. Without any political correctness, she immediately put finger on...