QUOTE(Hosank @ 04/24/07 01:53 PM) [snapback]107787[/snapback]
actually, i tried to copy that map, but again, it was hand drawn so the borders arn't great.
but, there are only about 2 million Assyrians in the world...how will they fill the entire northern iraK? at the expense of the kurds and turkomen..
anyways..i tired to make the map fair for Assyrians, but as i said, it's hand drawn
This isnt the whole Northern Iraq as you see, those are the main Assyrian parts...of khabour area(northeast syria), tur abdin(the area of mardin and so), and finally Nohadra(dohuk) and Nineveh area...
There are countries...like Sweden, Norway who are much bigger than the are I marked and have a popluation between 5-8 mio...
my guess for the population in this area is between 3-4 mio, of who are at least 700 000 - 1 000 000 Assyrians...., the thing is, that Assyrians have a owner ship in those parts, which makes villages, and agrulity land..., the problem is...those part are within 3 States...Turkey, where Tur Abdin lies...,Syria, where the khabour area lies (the village I come from is in it too) and finally Irak (Northern Iraq), where nohadra and ninawa lies....
Still this is a map, which is also hand drawn, we are not looking for any wars, to tack form as soon as posible an Assyrian State.
We are looking, for repopulation nohadra and nineveh area, which is on the way..., many villages have been rebuild and illegal occuption is on some few villages ended...
as example...the village of semele (shmet el), which means in Assyrian name of god, some of its original people have been brought back to it, which where forced 20 years ago by saddam to ressetle in other parts of iraq....
there are other exmaples of that, but still we have some occupdied villages, by kurdish neighbours, where we are looking for to get them on a peacefull way back...I am sure the Kurds will understand that, since they claim also arab occuptied cites...like kirkuk.
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