An Assyrian Nineveh Plain administrative region in northern Iraq, firmly embedded within Iraq’s constitutional framework, will serve Türkiye’s long-term interest by reducing contested zones and enhance stability, writes Assyrian-Dutch analyst Marcus Yalcin Be Shao.
Assyrians talk about survival in the language of politics: seats, security, and the homeland. But a quieter force shapes whether we endure as a people in the diaspora: who meets whom, who marries, and where families form, argues writer Johnny Shiba and suggests a few practical solutions.
If Assyrians are serious about advocating for meaningful change within Iraq, then the demand should not be reduced to the implementation of vague minority clauses but true equality in rights and status, argues Assyrian-American political activist Enlil Odisho.
No community can build a sustainable future on uncertain legal grounds and there can be no meaningful return without secure property rights, writes Assyrian-Swedish lawyer Ilhan Aydin regarding the vast Assyrian lands shifted into state ownership in southeastern Türkiye's Assyrian region.
Anthropological confusion, historical irony and genealogical fallacy – that is how Daniel Sada characterizes the latest controversial statement by Assyrian Patriarch Louis Sako seeking to divide the Assyrian nation.
Recent Western support for Kurdish autonomy exposes a double standard: moral concern becomes political protection only when claims are seen as institutionally legible. Assyrian demands, rooted in restraint, continuity, and survival, have been denied that recognition, argues Ninos Marcus.
Türkiye is uniquely positioned to help make the Assyria Region in Iraq become a reality to curb the increasing threat of Kurdish separatism, argues the author.
A “Christian province” in the Nineveh Plain would betray the Assyrian cause and transform historic Assyrian land into a symbolic administrative unit that is praised internationally, controlled externally, and emptied of national meaning, argues Ninos Marcus.
In this analysis of regional power dynamics affecting the Assyrian nation, Edward Oraha argues that a unifying national vision is among what's needed to make Assyrian aspirations part of the wider equation.
The eradication of a people and their identity is not carried out solely through physical destruction, but also through a systemic process of identity destruction, coercion, misclassification, and structural pressure, writes Dr Daniel Sada.
The political order that emerged in northern Iraq after 1991 departed sharply from its original pluralistic vision. Instead of an inclusive post Ba’ath framework reflecting ethnic and historical diversity, governance consolidated around a single ethno nationalist project, writes Ninos Marcus.
