Assyrians in Iraq Should Go for Self-Determination (By Yeghia Tashjian)

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 ancestral lands. Churches were burned,

The collapse of the Sykes-Picot borders (By Yeghia Tashjian)

The collapse of the Sykes-Picot borders (By Yeghia Tashjian)

After the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) invaded and captured the northern cities of Iraq, it became apparent that they intended to eliminate the artificial borders that were drawn as a result of the Sykes-Picot agreement. The territory ISIS controls stretches