Nineveh farmer cultivates diverse pepper varieties
A farmer in Baghdida is growing a wide range of pepper varieties inside plastic greenhouses, part of an agricultural effort that community leaders say helps Nineveh Plain residents stay on their land.
"Francis Ador told 964media he is managing the effects of an unusually cold and wet season, which has caused his Iraqi hot peppers to turn from green to red earlier than expected. “The color change will not affect the flavor,” he said. His greenhouses, each covering around 500 square meters, sit near Baghdida along the Mosul road, irrigated by a nearby well."
Matti Matti grew up in Ankawa, an Assyrian area outside of Erbil. He’s witnessed the town change dramatically as Iraq’s Assyrian population has collapsed.
Residents of the historic Assyrian village of Ayn Wardo (Gülgöze) in Tur Abdin are opposing a large solar power project planned by Turkey’s Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, warning that it could damage farmland, grazing areas, and the region’s ancient cultural heritage.
In thousands of living rooms across Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Austria and other countries a quiet linguistic experiment is taking place. The subjects are the grandchildren of the Assyrian refugees who fled the Tur Abdin region in southeastern Turkey starting in the late 1970s.
