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Conclusions Concerning the “19 January Initiative”

Issued on 21-22 January 2017, Berlin United in Rights Conference and 25-26 February 2017, Paris Round Table Concerning the “19 January Initiative” 1. The Asia Minor Peoples’ UNITED IN RIGHTS conference held in Berlin on the 28-29 of February...

April 8, 2017    Posted In  Armenian Genocide, Diaspora and Republic  Minority rights monitor  Turkey: domestic and foreign affairs 
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Turkey: How the 3,000-year Greek Presence on the Aegean Shore Came to an End (By Uzay Bulut)

Tension is running high between Greece and Turkey. The cause? Turkish Chief of the General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar paid a visit to Imia, a pair of two small, uninhabited Greek islets in the Aegean Sea, on January 29. He was accompanied by the commanders...

March 22, 2017    Posted In  Minority rights monitor  Turkey: domestic and foreign affairs 
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Iraq’s Turkmen, Assyrians and Christians & Yazidis announce formation of a strategic national coalition “National Coalition for Al Rafidein Region”

The Turkmen, Assyrians, Yazidis, Shabak, and other minorities are considered to be among the original Iraqi societies, as evidenced by the various civilizations of Iraq for thousands of years, as they lived, built, and constructed this area of the land...

March 8, 2017    Posted In  Iraq  Minority rights monitor 
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Yet Another War in Shingal: The Sword of Damocles (By Tomáš Kaválek)

During the morning of Friday 3 March, clashes broke out between the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party)-linked Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ) and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)-linked Rojava Peshmerga units consisting of Syrian Kurds, while the latter...

March 6, 2017    Posted In  Iraq  Kurdish affairs  Minority rights monitor 
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The Nineveh Plains and the Future of Minorities in Iraq (By Yousif Kalian)

When the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) stormed northern Iraq and took over Mosul in the summer of 2014, it ran a parallel campaign of genocide against the minorities of the Nineveh Plains. For many of these groups, including Christians and Yezidis,...

February 8, 2017    Posted In  Iraq  Kurdish affairs  Minority rights monitor 
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The Kurds of Lebanon: identity, activism and ideology (By Clare Maxwell)

Many members of the Kurdish community in Lebanon cannot give a solid answer to the question of whether they consider themselves Kurdish first and foremost, or Lebanese. It’s a conundrum shared by many other national and ethnic groups in the country,...

January 30, 2017    Posted In  Kurdish affairs  Lebanon  Minority rights monitor 
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Assyrians in Iraq Should Go for Self-Determination (By Yeghia Tashjian)

As World War I broke out, the Turkish government implemented the plan to destroy the Christian communities within its empire. Around 2 million (1,500,000 Armenians, 750,000 Assyrians and 500,000 Pontic Greeks) were massacred and others deported from their...

September 23, 2014    Posted In  Iraq  Kurdish affairs  Minority rights monitor 
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