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DEM Party: The 6–7 September 1955 Pogrom is one of the most profound unaddressed shames in Turkey’s history, needs to addressed in the present
TURKEY — On the 71st anniversary of the 6-7 September 1955 Pogrom, political and rights groups in Turkey renewed calls to preserve the memory of the victims and confront what happ…
Van Shawqi Gilyana assumes duties as new Director General of Syriac Culture and Arts in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
ANKAWA, ARBA’ILO (Erbil) — The Syriac Heritage Museum in Ankawa hosted a handover ceremony on Sunday, 6 September 2026, marking the appointment of Van Shawqi Gilyana as Dire…
Iran: America’s Options
By Hicham Bou Nassif | Weinberg Associate Professor of International Relations and the Middle East and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College-California The US…
IHD Panel Forum: The events of 6-7 September 1955 are a mentality problem; Turkey has a lynch culture
ISTANBUL — On 6–7 September, Rûm, Armenian, Jewish, and Syriac residents of Istanbul and many other Turkish cities were subjected to premeditated pogroms. The widespread pogrom le…
Tom Barrack Warns of New Cycle of Violence in Syria’s Sweida
SWEIDA, Syria — The United States warned Saturday that renewed violence in Syria’s southern province of Sweida risked pushing the region back toward the bloodshed that devastated …
St. George’s Church in Beth Rammana (Brummana), a Living Testament to Faith, History and Christian Unity
BETH RAMMANA (BRUMMANA), Tur Levnon — Tucked among the churches and old stone buildings of Brummana, St. George’s Greek (Rûm) Melkite Catholic Church carries a history that reache…
The 6–7 September 1955 Pogrom: Extremely violent, premeditated, perpetrators at large and no official recognition
ISTANBUL — The Istanbul Pogrom of 6–7 September 1955 was perhaps the most violent event in the long series of persecution, discrimination, and hate against indigenous peoples in t…
Syriac Union Party and Syrian Democratic Alliance hold a seminar on Syria’s Constitutional Declaration in Daramsuq (Damascus)
DARAMSUQ (DAMASCUS) — Amid a widening disconnect between the Syrian government and a broad cross-section of Syrian society, spanning political parties, civil society organizations…
Today in History: Syriac scholar Gabriel Qardahi (1845–1931)
Few figures have left as profound a mark on modern Syriac scholarship as Abbot Gabriel Qardahi (1845–1931). At a time when the Syriac language faced mounting challenges from socia…
MUB Official Echoue Gouriye: Unifying political discourse is essential for the future of Christians in Syria
BETH ZALIN (QAMISHLI), Syria — Echoue Gouriye, Member of the Presidential Body of the Bethnahrin National Council (Mawtbo Umthoyo D’Bethnahrin, MUB), has stressed the importance o…
