Meeting on Land Issues in Tur-Abdin in Giessen, Germany

The Syriac Universal Alliance (“SUA”) invites you and all related associations of the Aramean villages of Southeast Turkey to an SUA meeting in order to discuss the illegal land expropriation in Tur-Abdin.

The meeting will be held on 13 March 2011 from 13.00 – 16.00 at the Syriac Orthodox Mor Hushabo Church in Giessen, Germany.

The SUA has thoroughly investigated this neglected question which has been haunting many of the Aramean (Syriac) people in, and outside, of Turkey over the past few years. In 2009 and 2010 our delegates visited Turkey (Istanbul, Ankara, Diyarbakir, Mardin and Midyat) to obtain a first-hand assessment of the extent our ancestral lands have been illegally taken away by Turkey. Additionally, the SUA conducted many interviews with our people in the Diaspora who have suffered from the injustice of illegal land expropriation.

We have taken our findings from the assessment and interviews conducted, and have produced the insightful “SUA Report on the Underreported Land Issues of the Aramean People in Tur-Abdin” (“Report”). The Report is a first draft and covers all the important results of our assessment and includes our proposed recommendations on the future of Tur-Abdin. We are now giving our people the opportunity to collectively sit together to discuss the findings of the Report and discuss how the SUA can assist in protecting and preserving your inherited land rights in Turkey with more effective and closer cooperation with you.

After we have received your feedback from the meeting, the SUA will produce a final Report to submit to high-level state officials and members of the Turkish Parliament, the European Parliament and the Council of Europe.

Please note that this crucial meeting is for registered participants only. Therefore, if you want to participate, please confirm your attendance until Thursday, 10 March 2011, by contacting us by:

Telephone: +46-855 032 810 & +31-619 914 814
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Fax: +46-855 041 054