By Scott Jaschik
scott.jaschik@insidehighered.com
InsideHigherEd.com
Scholars of the Armenian genocide have long accused Turkey of using its financial support to promote the idea that a genocide didn’t take place or that the jury is still out — views that have little credibility among historians of genocide.
An incident in 2006, only recently being talked about publicly, has some scholars concerned that Turkey and its supporters may be interfering in American scholarship. The chair of the board of the Institute of Turkish Studies, which is based at Georgetown University, resigned at the end of 2006, and he says he was given a choice by Turkish officials of either quitting or seeing the funding for the institute go away.
Having never sought public office before, Brendan is not a professional politician. He's a local family man and small business owner who is fed up with the disaster in Springfield and politics as usual - and he's decided to do something about it.
A lifelong resident of Glenview, Brendan attended Glenview’s excellent public schools and graduated from Glenbrook South High School. Brendan went on to obtain his undergraduate degree in political science at Loyola University Chicago. He then earned his law degree, with honors, at DePaul University College of Law where he served on both the DePaul Law Review and the Moot Court Appellate Team.
Brendan is an entrepreneur, operating his own law firm since 2003. He represents individuals, families and small businesses in corporate, litigation and real estate matters. Brendan has also worked with the pro bono agency “The Center for Disability and Elder Law” since 2000 and he continues to represent needy and elderly clients on a pro bono basis.
By AssyriaSat Staff
kbsv@aol.com
To: Catholic News Agency
The Assyrian Global Television Network, AssyriaSat, finds your article tilted, “Assyrian bishop explains his journey into communion with the Catholic Church”, published on June 5, 2008 very tasteless and offensive.
As a media, we believe that integrity-based journalism is a must, especially for a religious magazine such as CNA. There has been a whole lot of misrepresentation of facts in regards to the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East (ACOE) and the expulsion of ex-bishop Bawai Soro in various Catholic news magazines. This relaxed standard undermines journalism's integrity, the reader’s intelligence and the integrity of the publication on the whole.
Ex-bishop Bawai Soro, aka, Ashur B. Soro, was defrocked in 2005 for misappropriation of church funds and fraudulent conversion of the titles of the church properties he held in his trust during his employment with the ACOE to his own sole corporation. The ACOE court case against Soro was so strong and solid that the Santa Clara Superior Court judge found it unnecessary to go to a trial and granted ACOE a Summary Judgment in October 2007. Perhaps your investigative reporters could look into this case in dept for future reference.
By Ken Joseph Jr.
www.assyrianchristians.com
Washington D.C. -- The driving force behind “The Biden Plan”, Senator Joseph Biden Jr. of Delaware in a recent conversation confirmed that “The Biden Plan” involves more than three divisions of Iraq.
Generally seen as a proposal to allow Iraq to grant autonomy to “Shiastan” in the south, “Sunnistan” in the middle of the country and “Kurdistan” in the North, Biden confirmed that his plan also included the Assyrian Province.
By AssyriaTimes Staff Writer
According to one of the main Iraqi newspapers, Al-Iraq, the government of Netherlands has requested the European Union, as well as the Iraqi government to help the indigenous Assyrian Christians of Iraq to establish their own autonomous state of Assyria in northern Iraq.
The Parliament of Netherlands submitted this request via two of its ministers. Additionally, Netherlands is requesting the government of Iraq to conduct a referendum from the Assyrians in Iraq regarding their desire for an autonomous state. The request also included the suggestion of creating an Assyrian Christian militia to protect their independent state.
By Internet Editorial Staff
Sayfo Center
Sabri Atman, representative of the Seyfo Center, has been invited to Greece to lecture about Seyfo- the genocide on Assyrians during the First World War.
Apart from Assyrians and Armenians, also Greeks were murdered during Seyfo. Before Seyfo approximately 3 million Greeks lived in Turkey. The Black Sea coast was demographically dominated by Pontic Greeks. Today there are no Pontic Greeks living at the Black Sea coast of Turkey. Before 1915, the Christian minorities constituted 1/3 of the country’s population. Today the Christians are approximately only 80,000 in Turkey, a country with a population of 70 millions.
All Christians, Assyrians, Armenians and Greeks were either murdered or subjected to ethnical cleansing.
By Trip Miller
The Trip Miller Company
TripMiller@sbcglobal.net
LOS ANGELES, June 9, 2008 – Rosie Malek-Yonan returns to daytime television joining the cast of ABC’s longest-running daytime drama series, General Hospital, as “Farah Mir” in a recurring role that will debut on June 9, 2008.
Most recently, she worked opposite Reese Witherspoon in Rendition which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Under the direction of Oscar winning director, Gavin Hood, the film also stared Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep, Peter Sarsgaard, and Alan Arkin.
Malek-Yonan is an Assyrian activist, actor and author. She brought the Assyrian Genocide to the limelight with the publication of her book, The Crimson Field and is an outspoken advocate of issues concerning her Assyrian nation.
When her book was brought to the attention of Congress at the suggestion of director Terrence Malick, Malek-Yonan was invited to testify on Capitol Hill before a Congressional Committee of the 109th Congress on religious freedom regarding the genocide, massacres and persecution of Assyrians in Iraq since the 2003 Iraq War.
In 2008, she addressed the topic of genocide, world peace and in particular the Assyrian Genocide in statements invited to be presented at the House of Lords on 12 March and on 24 April at the House of Commons, London.
To read more about her please visit Rosie Malek-Yonan’s Official Website www.rosiemalek-yonan.com , The Crimson Field Website and her Wikipedia Profile.
By Gaby Kiwarkis
The Assyrian RAF Levies Association
The company was formed on the 6th January 1942 from volunteers at RAF Habbanyia in Iraq to safe guard against Axis infiltration through the Caucuses, the area being mostly impassable terrain the enemy would need to rely on existing roads, tunnels and railways. The [AOC] Air Officer Commanding Iraq, Air vice Marshal Hugh De Crespigny reasoned that a parachute company consisting of trusted indigenous servicemen, could destroy these access points and slow German advance, after the operation they would be able to discard their uniforms and blend in with the local population evading capture.
Lectures were given to the regular Levies on the needs to establish a parachute company and volunteers were asked for without enticement, no increase of pay or privileges were offered, this was to ensure that only the “right type” would volunteer. 1000 volunteered for the task and were put through a rigorous selection process, after two weeks of gruelling exercises only the fittest were selected, the 1,000 volunteers were filtered down to 150 Assyrians and 50 Kurds, and these were to form the initial company personnel commanded by Major Barnes. By December 1942, parachute training had commenced from Vickers Valencia’s, the only Aircraft available. The Valencia was so outdated and slow that it was nicknamed the “flying Pig” by the RAF, but it did serve useful as a parachute training aircraft, the fuselage was large enough to accommodate 20 men with equipment.
BAGHDAD — An Assyrian Orthodox priest has been killed in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad in the latest attack against Iraq's Christian minority.
The 40-year-old priest, Youssef Adel, was shot by gunmen who drove up in a car.
An assistant said the gunmen opened fire as Adel was opening the gate of his house in a Christian enclave near St. Peter and Paul Church, where he presided.
Christians have frequently been caught up in the violence or been targeted in this predominantly Muslim country.
By AssyriaTimes Staff Writer
The father of the ancient astronaut theory, author of Chariots of the Gods and over two dozen books on this theme, Erich Von Daniken will turn 73 on April 14th, 2008.
Daniken's fantastic work in creating an atmosphere of curiosity about our human history and ancient knowledge has left a valuable legacy for the generations to come, and that is indeed in addition to the two generations that have already grown up with his great books and documentaries.
For us, the Assyrians, Erich is so dear. In his books he wrote about ancient Nimrud Lens, Baghdad Battery, the magnificent and mysterious list of Assyrian kings before the big storm, and pile of evidence found in Mesopotamia all of which reveals how the ancient Assyrian gods and kings such as Gilgamesh were being astronaut. Day by day, more findings take place that support Daniken’s theory. For example, read last week's Clay tablet holds clue to asteroid mystery By Nic Fleming.
