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diaspora could not till or maintain the properties they owned while living elsewhere) to have the land they owned confiscated by the state and sold to third parties. Another law made it illegal for non-Turkish nationals to purchase land in Mardin province, where most Assyrians would have immigrated to. Regardless of those laws a few did come, such as those who still had their citizenship and could buy property and managed to avoid having their land taken – but many more who could have come back could not due to the laws passed.
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did not want to pay an annual tribute to the older churches through local bishops who then passed some of it up to the Patriarch who then passed some of it to the Porte in the form of taxes. They wanted to deal directly with the Porte, across ethnic lines (even if through a Muslim administrator), in
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those who had fled and confiscated their property. Despite their actual citizenship rights, many Assyrians who remained in Turkey had to re-purchase their own properties from Kurdish aghas or risk losing their Turkish citizenship. Some Assyrians continued to live in Tur Abdin until the 1980s; this
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In 2001, the Turkish government invited Assyrians/Syriacs to return to Turkey, but some speculate that the offer was more of a publicity stunt, as a land law passed a short time before caused Assyrians who owned untilled farms or land with forests on them (which a large amount did, as those in
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status—in theory granting them full autonomy—with subordinated farmers. Hakkari is very mountainous with peaks reaching up to 4,000 metres (13,000 ft) separated by steep gorges, such that many areas could only be accessed by footpaths carved into the side of mountains. The Assyrian tribes
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On 18 June 2013, the Ankara 13th Circuit Administrative Court ruled in favor of Assyrians' right to use their mother tongue as stated in the Treaty of Lausanne. The Ministry of Education accepted the decision and a first kindergarten opened in 2014. In 2023,
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in the 1980s and the bad state of most of the Middle East, along with the forever looming issue of Turkish governmental discrimination. By the end of the conflict in the late 1990s, less than 1,000 Assyrians were still in
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was the last substantial Christian population in Turkey living rurally in its original homeland. Some scholars have described ongoing exclusion and harassment of Syriacs in Turkey as a continuation of the
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was expelled from Turkey in 1924, despite its declarations of loyalty to the new Turkish government. Unlike Armenians, Jews, and Greeks, Assyrians were not recognized as a minority group in the 1923
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Biner, Zerrin Özlem (2011). "Multiple imaginations of the state: understanding a mobile conflict about justice and accountability from the perspective of Assyrian–Syriac communities".
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The Assyrians are an ethnic group divided into a variety of different Christian churches, and those churches vary dramatically in liturgy and structure, and even dictate identity (see
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opened, the first church built since the foundation of the Republic of Turkey. As of 2023, the Syriac community owns 113 properties registered in the name of community foundations.
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Gaunt has estimated the Assyrian population at between 500,000 and 600,000 just before the outbreak of World War I, significantly higher than reported on Ottoman census figures.
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In 2013, Assyrians were allowed to open the first school operating in their mother tongue since 1928. The same year, 55 Syriac churches, monasteries, and cemeteries in
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order to have their own voice and not be subjected to the rule of the Patriarchal system. This general Protestant charter was granted in 1850.)
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in 1453 were already divided into many ethnic groups and denominations, usually organized into a hierarchy of bishops headed by a patriarch.
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Percentage of the prewar population that was Assyrian, presented by the Assyro-Chaldean delegation to the 1919 peace conference.
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Muslim–Christian Relations and Inter-Christian Rivalries in the Middle East: The Case of the Jacobites in an Age of Transition
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In a 2017 survey, 64% of Assyrians in Istanbul declared "Assyrian" as their mother tongue, while 27% declared Turkish.
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Let Them Not Return: Sayfo - The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire
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Religious Minorities in Turkey: Alevi, Armenians, and Syriacs and the Struggle to Desecuritize Religious Freedom
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but they had many hardships nevertheless. In the 1960s, it became increasingly unsafe for Assyrians/Syriacs in
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as well as villages. Unlike the Syriac population of Tur Abdin, many of these Syriacs spoke other languages.
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Collective and State Violence in Turkey: The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State
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to Lebanon, where the See was reestablished. There is still a tiny Syriac Catholic community that lives in
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after he and his followers settled there in the 1660s, making Turkey the center of their church structure.
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and could not open schools teaching their language. The last Assyrian-language school was closed in 1928.
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Unlike Armenians, Jews, and Greeks, Assyrians were not recognized as a minority group in the 1923
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due to oppression by the Syriac Orthodox Church. A large community lived in the southeast in the
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with various additional/alternate self-identifications, such as Syriacs, Arameans, or Chaldeans
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in Turkey. Diyarbakir was the city in which the Chaldean Catholic Church was founded when it
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mountains on the southeastern edge of Turkey's border, which is now part of the modern day
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The Assyrian case: The impact of the European Union on Turkey`s minority rights concept
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Ankara 13th Circuit Administrative Court, 18 June 2013 (E. 2012/1746, K. 2013/952)
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States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey
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allies. Church of the East settlement began to the east on the western shore of
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confiscated by the Turkish state were returned to them. On 8 October 2023, the
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The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913–1950
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announced the opening of a new Assyrian school, funded by the government.
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In the Ottoman Empire, this religious status became systematized as the "
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there was also a large community of Nestorians, or followers of the
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campaign that negatively affected the Syriac communities (such as
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in the 2nd half of the 20th century, due to conflicts between the
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region until they were massacred and forced to flee during the
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until mid-1915 based in a village in that region known as
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had an elaborate system of administering the non-Muslim "
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Mar Pithyoun (St. Anthony) Chaldean Catholic Church in
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The Assyrians were once a large ethnic minority in the
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and Istanbul, but most Syriac Catholics now live in
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Assyrian women fleeing through the mountains during
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Mardin
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Suret
Surayt
Turkish
Syriac Christianity
Turkish
Syriac
indigenous
Semitic-speaking
Turkey
Eastern Aramaic
Christians
Syriac Orthodox Church
Chaldean Catholic Church
Assyrian Pentecostal Church
Assyrian Evangelical Church
Ancient Church of the East
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linguistic
cultural
religious traditions

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