Tag: Mor Gabriel
EU Commission’s Turkey Report Touches on Property Rights As Well
St. Gabriel Assyrian Monastry in Midyat, Turkey, founded in 397 A.D. Bar Daisan - AINA - 22/4/18 Brussels (AINA) -- In its new report on accession, the European ... Read More
Turkey Returns Less Than Half of Assyrian Monastery’s Land it Seized
World Watch Monitor - 14/3/14 The Turkish Ministry of EU Affairs welcomed March 2 the returnof property, seized by the country's treasury, to the world's oldest ... Read More
Return of Mor Gabriel Monastery land approved
8/10/13 Turkish Deputy PM Arinc says the assembly of foundations, the decision-making body of the Directorate General of Foundations, decided to return land to Mor ... Read More
Promised legal reforms disappoint Turkey’s religious minorities
World Watch Monitor - 4/10/13 The Turkish government's long-awaited "democratisation package" of reform laws announced this week has met with considerable disappointment among Turkey's minority ... Read More
Syriacs to regain Mor Gabriel’s land, no move on Halki Seminary in ‘democratization package’
ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News - 2/10/13 The land of the historic Mor Gabriel Monastery will be returned to the Syriac community in Turkey as ... Read More
A Mardin and Midyat adventure
6/4/13 -Asianet The four of us sat in the dolmus, eating Yusuf's almonds and debating the best way for me to visit Deyrulzafaran Monastery. The ... Read More
Turkey Invites Wary Minorities To Return From Exile
Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (L) shakes hands with Archbishop Nourhan Manougian, Patriarchal Vicar of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, during the international conference on ... Read More
”This Is Simply Our Home”
Land dispute with the Turkish government and Kurdish village leaders: The Mor Gabrial is the oldest surviving Christian monastery in the world. There have been ... Read More
Legal Issues Cast Doubt on Return of Christians to Turkey’s Southeast
Syriac Christian monks attend a service in Mor Gabriel monastery in southeastern Turkey. Dorian Jones 26/10/2012 MOR GABRIEL, TURKEY — Turkey is home to Syriac ... Read More
Oldest Christian Monastery at Risk
A. Papapostolou Source: ANSA 12/7/2012 The Mongolians failed to destroy it 700 years ago despite the massacre of 40 friars and 400 Christians. Yet the ... Read More
Exploring the Tur Abdin a forgotten treasure of southeastern Turkey
29 /1/2012 PAT YALE , MARDİN Imagine a landscape of narrow country roads hemmed in by dry stone walls. Imagine village after honey-colored village, each ... Read More
Turkish Syriacs lament problems with education, Mor Gabriel
VERCİHAN ZİFLİOĞLU ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News 4/4/2011 Syriacs in Turkey are fighting to regain their rite to educate their children in their own language, ... Read More
Another gross example of the repression of Christianity in Turkey
Why are we still seriously considering Turkish membership of the EU? By William Oddie 24/2/2011 Yet more evidence has emerged that Turkey’s proposed membership of ... Read More
Turkey’s battle over Mor Gabriel monastery
KARTMIN, TURKEY --Christians have lived in these parts since the dawn of their faith. But they have had a rough couple of millennia, preyed on ... Read More