How do Christian families, most of whom are descendants of the survivors of the 1913-23 Christian genocide, continue to survive in Turkey? How much respect and tolerance are shown towards them by the Muslim society and government of Turkey? A recent incident targeting the Assyrian Christian natives in a village in southeast Turkey gives us […]
Historic Church Used as a Stable in Southeast Turkey
Churches across Turkey, which are devoid of their congregants due to continued Christian persecution, are systematically desecrated by the government and many citizens of the country. One of the latest victims is the Assyrian/Syriac Mor Aday Church. It is being used as a stable by local villagers in a district in southeast Turkey, reported […]
June 15: 106th Anniversary of Turkey’s 1915 Assyrian Genocide
Tuesday, June 15 marked the 106th anniversary of the beginning of the Assyrian Genocide by Ottoman Turkey committed between 1915 and 1923. During this period, Assyrians — alongside Greeks and Armenians — were exposed to genocide, in which around 300,000 Assyrians perished. Assyrians call the crime “seyfo,” which means “sword” in their language, as […]
What Lies Beneath: Biden’s Deceptive Acknowledgment of the Armenian Genocide
Joe Biden’s April 24 statement acknowledging the Armenian Genocide (1915–1923+) carried out by Turkey was welcome, but flawed. Indeed, “Turkey” appears nowhere in the document. Moreover, the State Department swiftly undermined Biden’s virtuous-sounding words. American acknowledgment of the Armenian Genocide isn’t even new. The U.S. House has passed several resolutions on the Genocide. And […]
Turkey creates “autonomous and civilian structure” dedicated to denying early 20th-century genocide of Christians
The Turks continue to deny that they committed genocide of the Armenian, Greek and Assyrian Christians of the nation. The Christians were kuffar harbi — Infidels at war with Islam — for wanting independence, and hence under Islamic law their lives were forfeit. But jihadis and Islamic supremacists never, ever take responsibility for what they […]
The Thirty-Year Genocide in Turkey
Lindsey Graham was criticized last week for blocking a Congressional resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide, and deservedly so. Despite the well-financed efforts of successive Turkish governments to convince the world that there never was an Armenian genocide, but only some clashes between the Ottomans and Armenians who “treacherously” took the side of Russia during the […]
Colm Gillis: The West Owes “an Immense Debt to Islam” (Part 2)
Colm Gilllis continues his attempt to eviscerate Boris Johnson for daring to suggest, 12 years ago, that Islam is the cause of Muslim lands falling behind the West: Johnson is correct that many Muslim-majority nations are beset by social and political problems. Yet the same holds true for numerous Christian-majority nations such as Russia, Honduras, […]
Turkey 1894-1924: “Deliberate, state-engineered genocide aided by Muslim clerics and the Muslim-majority population”
“The Turks and their helpers murdered, straightforwardly or indirectly, through privation and disease, between 1.5 and 2.5 million Christians between 1894 and 1924.” And the Turks still deny that they did it. Disinformation and ignorance continue to cloud this issue. Even in this article, Kemal Ataturk refers to himself as a “mujahid,” that is, a […]
New book brings to light Turkey’s thirty-year genocide of Greek, Armenian, and Assyrian Christians
An important new book about an atrocity that is little-known in the West and obscured by charges of “Islamophobia.” Order it here. “Turkey’s destruction of its Christians: Benny Morris unravels the ‘Thirty-Year Genocide,’” by Daniel Campos, i24News, June 11, 2019: World renowned Israeli historian Benny Morris sat down with i24NEWS to discuss his new body […]
Pressure on Obama grows to declare war against Christians a genocide
“Christianity in the Middle East is shattered,” Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, Nebraska Republican, told the IDC [In Defense of Christians] conference on Sept. 9. “The ancient faith tradition lies beaten, broken and dying. Yet Christians in Iraq and Syria are hanging on in the face of the Islamic State’s barbarous onslaught. This is genocide.” Yes. And […]