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Posted by Jeff (Guest) - Thursday, November 11 2004, 6:38:07 (CET)
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Why is it that Assyrians from Turkey can cooperate with the Turkish authorities and not call them evil Muslim Ba'athey Traitor Muslims Evil Muslims who are discriminating...etc...etc... like the ones from Iraq do?

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Assyrians Return to Their Homes in Sirnak, Turkey

Courtesy of the Turkish Daily News
6 November 2004

(ZNDA: Ankara) Three Syriac Christian families have returned to their homes in the village of Sari in Sirnak province after spending approximately 30 years in Europe.

The Turan and Celik families, who left their homes for various reasons, moved to Holland, Sweden and Germany but never lost touch with each other. After spending decades overseas, the pull of their places of birth became too strong and they decided to move back.

They recently applied to the Idil Public Administrator's Office and demanded the removal of the village guards who had been deployed there for security reasons 10 years ago.

After the Sirnak Governor's Office moved the village guards and their families out of the village, the families returned and are trying to make up for lost time.

The representative of the Syriac families, Suleyman Turan, said they had been very homesick while in Europe, adding: "We never forgot Turkey. We were forced to go to Holland 30 years ago for various reasons. A person can never forget the place of his birth. After we left, the village guards moved in here. They did a lot of damage. The state evacuated them and gave us our homes back. We have repaired some. The electricity to the village has been cut off. We have no water. The school also needs repairing. After so many years, we will once again till our soil. We will repair our church. We didn't ask anyone for help. We will do these on our own."

He said three families were currently living in the village and that four more would arrive next week from the Netherlands and Germany.

Semon Celik, who had moved to Sweden 29 years ago, said that they were happy and at peace after returning to their homes.

Efraim Turan, who lived in Germany for 34 years, said: "Our forefathers lived here. We grew up in this village. Even if we had spent 100 years in Europe, it would have still remained a foreign land to us. Our homeland is Turkey. The village needs a lot of things right now. We couldn't bring our children back because the school has not yet been repaired. We never felt like we belonged in Europe. We always missed our village."

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