Written Statement - Human Rights Council. Item 3 and 5: Indigenous Peoples
Written Statement by the Syriac Universal Alliance on the theme of: Unrecognized Indigenous Peoples: The Case of the Aramean (Syriac) People of Turkey
The Republic of Turkey continues to withhold legal status and its concomitant basic rights to the Aramean people which are given them by the Lausanne Treaty signed by Turkey in 1923. By contrast, this republic validates its own existence by reference to this very same treaty. Turkey also fails to grant the Arameans recognition as an indigenous people, even if it has endorsed the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007 and unequivocal sources prove their continuous presence in Southeast-Turkey from about 1112 BC onward. The widely praised recent package reforms in this country did not change the 87-year-old violations of their fundamental human rights by successive governments either.
Oral Statement: Human Rights Council, 18th Session - Agenda item 5
Minority Rights in Turkey, Iraq and Syria: The Aramean (Syriac) People and their Appeal to the UN
The Syriac Universal Alliance wants to draw the attention of the Council to the precarious situation of the indigenous Aramean (or Syriac) people of Turkey, Iraq and Syria.
Oral Statement: Human Rights Council, 18th Session - Agenda Item 4
The “Arab Spring” vis-à-vis Freedom, Democracy and Equality: What of Springtime for the Indigenous Peoples of the Near East?
The Syriac Universal Alliance wants to draw the attention of the Human Rights Council to the worsening situation of the already decimated native Aramean (otherwise known as Syriac) people of Turkey, Syria and Iraq.
