Washington has empowered an ethno-nationalist project that marginalizes the indigenous population and enforces the kind of oppression the U.S. claims to oppose," an Assyrian political figure has argued.
Increased security and better economic opportunities, among other factors, could more than quadruple the Assyrian population of the Tur Abdin Region, predicts the Assyrian analyst Ilhan Aydin.
The Assyrian Democratic Organization (ADO) has objected to the Syrian government’s decision to exclude the Assyrian New Year and the Kurdish New Year from the country’s list of public holidays.
Two leading Assyrian organizations, the Assyrian Democratic Organization and The Assyrian Monitor for Human Rights, have denounced and condemned the closure of Assyrian schools in northeast Syria's Gozarto Region by Kurdish militants.
A Turkish MP from a party with Islamic ideology has posed a question to the vice president asking why the construction of a mosque in the Assyrian village of Zaz has been stopped.
The Kurdish group in control of northeast Syria's Gozarto Region has once again closed down Assyrian schools by force in an attempt to impose its own curriculum.