Tag: Tur Abdin

Turkey Returns Property to Syriac Orthodox Church

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- May 24, 2018

Pic- Dayro d'Mor Gabriel - Turabdin Pic- Dayro d'Mor Gabriel - Turabdin Pic- Dayro d'Mor Gabriel - Turabdin OCP News Service - 24/5/18 Mardin-Turkey- Properties ... Read More

New Book About the Assyrian Genocide Published

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- May 16, 2017

AINA - May 2017 PURCHASE A COPY HERE: (AINA) -- A new book on the Turkish genocide of Assyrians has been published by Berghahn Books. ... Read More

Turkey Removed Assyrian Sculpture From Public Square

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- January 18, 2017

The Assyrian Lamassu sculpture in front of the Diyarbakir Local Council was removed on January 8. AINA - 18/1/17 Diyarbakir (AINA) -- Turkish authorities removed ... Read More

Report on Turkish and Kurdish Confiscation of Assyrian Property

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- August 13, 2015

The Assyrian village of Ainwardo in Turkey (photo: Markus Tozman). Augin Kurt Haninke - August 2015 (AINA) -- The German journalist Susanne Gusten in Istanbul ... Read More

Documentary Film on the Assyrian Genocide Shown in Sweden

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- May 14, 2015

Director Aziz Said (R) filming on location in recording in Summer 2014 in the Assyrian city of Tur Abdin, Turkey (photo hujada.com) May 2015 Sodertalje, ... Read More

The Holy Cross Monastery in Turkey

OCP- October 21, 2013

21/10/13 To find Catalcam, access Google Maps and in the search engine type "Midyat, Turkey". From the centre of Midyat, follow the main road north ... Read More

Oldest Christian Monastery at Risk

OCP- July 13, 2012

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

OCP- January 29, 2012

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

Giulio Paletta’s photographs of Tur Abdin

OCP- September 30, 2010

On Monday, 27 September, His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Rowan Williams) opened an exhibition of photographs of Tur Abdin by the Italian photo-journalist, ... Read More