On March 16, 1918 (March 3, according to the Julian calendar) the Assyrian Patriarch Mar Shimon Benyamen was murdered by the Kurdish leader Simko Shikaki in a betrayal. The Patriarch was invited home to Simko in order to create an alliance between the Assyrians and...
Improper interference in the Assyrian movement
Today's program is about how the Assyrian movement was founded in Sweden 40 years ago, and how the external and internal enemies systematically tried to thwart it. What has happened 40 years later? What structural problems remain in the movement? And what are the...
Interview with Professor Ephrem Isa Yousif
Professor Ephrem Isa Yousif, specialized in Syriac translators, philosophers and chronicles is living in France. He is talking here about his 14th book, published by l’Harmattan in France.
Youth initiative to support GPF/Sootoro
Assyrian youth has taken an initiative to support the Assyrian security force GPF/Sootoro. The youth printed GPF's logo on T-shirts and beanie hats and sold the merchandise across Europe. The revenues were sent to the GPF.
Souleiman Yousef about latest explosion in Qamishli
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The situation in Gozarto, Qamishli Syria, before the attacks
The Assyria TV reporter Abir Youssef made a reportage trip to Syria before christmass and the aim was to do many interviews with as many people as possible. This was done to get an overall look at the situation of the Assyrians in Qamishli, Al-Hassakeh and Khabour...
Yacoob G Yaco about NPU and destruction of Assyrian cultural heritage
Last year, the whole world witnessed how ISIS destroyed Assyrian heritage. But in the Kurdish controlled parts of northern Iraq, there is another ongoing destruction, albeit a quiet one. To stop this destruction, the Assyrian politician, Yacoob G Yaco, has raised the...
Solidarity with Sawa Oshana Ide
Wednesday, February 17 2016, the Assyrian human rights activist Sawo Ide Oshana was arrested by the Turkish police.
How is Elias Naser doing?
The 22nd of April 2015 five men from the YPG-milisia murdered David Jendo and enjured his friend Elias Naser. Assyria TV is in touch with Elias Naser and asks him how he is doing now, almost a year later.
MFS are threatening Assyrians existence in Khabour
Yesterday a short program was published, where Assyria TV interviewed the Assyrians from Khabour who spoke about how Dowronoye's militia, MFS, assaulted one of the members of the Khabour Military Council, and threatened others by saying "MFS will take over the control...
Turkey is being driven to chaos
The situation in Turkey is deteriorating and becoming more serious. In southeastern Turkey there is an outright war between Kurdish guerrillas and the Turkish military. As always, the Assyrians are caught in the middle of something they have no part of and suffer the...
MFS are terrorizing Assyrians in Khabour
Last week, the Assyrian security force, Khabour Military Council, along with several other military units participated in a joint operation against the terrorist group IS in the area Shaddade. During the fighting, one of Khabour Military Councils soldiers was...
Tony Meshko on the visit to Syrian Assyria
As one of few Assyrian organizations from Europe, the Assyrian Federation of Sweden recently conducted a five-day visit to Qamishli, Khabour and Hassake in Syrian Assyria. The visit took place within the framework of the assistance project Khabour River Project which...
Active assistance in refugee work
Naila Bulun the chairman of the Women of the Assyrian Association in Gütersloh told in the interview about her volunteer work with the refugees. She speaks Arabic and Kurdish language very well and could thus accompanied in 2015 about 200 fugitives in their first...
Is the European Parliament’s decision on genocide just grandstanding?
The European Parliament recognized the ongoing persecutions of Assyrians and Yezidis in Iraq and Syria as genocide the 4th of February. Several organizations such as ADFA, A Demand For Action, and politicians such as Lars Adaktusson worked for recognition of the...
Unethical journalism by Suroyo TV
In a program in SuroyoTV titled “Shabtho Kamelto” broadcasted January 19, 2016, channel head Jakob Mirza and the Social Democrat county council member in Södertälje Metin Rhawi not only spread misinformation, but also called for violence against Afram Yakoub, the...
Interview with the leader of Tel Tamer guards, Robert Isho
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Assyrian organizations’ reaction to YPG/MFS attack on Assyrians in Qamishli
After the Kurdish YPG/MFS attacked the Assyrian security force GPF/Sootoro, the Assyrian Federation of Sweden reacted strongly. In a speech during a manifestation in Stockholm against the YPG/MFS attacks on Assyrians in Qamishli, the chairman of the Assyrian...
Assyria TV’s development and importance
Since Assyria TV started, it has taken very small steps forward. From being a simple WebTV, Assyria TV now has developed into a TV channel with the capacity to broadcast live programs via satellite. How has this happened? How has Assyria TV been able to establish...
2015 was a year of suffering for our people
We wanted to finish with 2015, but thas was not granted to us. Qamishli, the city of culture and language, is the mother of the cities in Syria. The atrocities in Saddad, Qaryatain and Khabour have called back our terrible memories to life 100 years ago. Ironically,...
Support for Syria and Iraq
On 01/23/2016 an information booth and a donation collection for the needy Christian Assyrians in Syria and Iraq was in the pedestrian zone Berliner-Straße held in Gütersloh. The focus of the attacks Beth-Zalin, the deadly events that took place on 30/12/2015 and on...
Before Geneva conference on Syria War
In a few days the peace talks will begin in Geneva, Switzerland. The only Assyrian organization as part of the Syrian opposition is ADO, Assyrian Democratic Organization. Sanharib Mirza, responsible for ADO Central Europe is being interviewed about the negotiations.
