Dawronoye

Dawronoye is a secular, leftist nationalist movement among the Assyrian people.[1] Ideologically characterized by progressive ideas and including socialist elements,[1] its founding roots can be traced to the late 1980s and the town of Midyat in Turkey.[1]

There is a network of Dawronoye created civil society organizations and parties across modern state boundaries in the Assyrian homeland region.[1] Among the Dawronoye affiliated organizations in Iraq are the Beth Nahrin Patriotic Union (Huyodo Bethnahrin Athronoyo, HBA)[2] and the Nineveh Plain Forces (NPF) militia.[2][3] An Assyrian diaspora umbrella organization since 2004 are the European Syriac Union and the Mesopotamia National Council. In October 2004, the movement launched their own satellite television channel, Suroyo TV.[1]

The movement is currently most prominent in Syria, with the Dawronoye affiliated Syriac Union Party (SUP),[1] which is a major partner in the governing Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) coalition of the Federation of Northern Syria - Rojava, led by the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD). The SUP operates the Syriac Military Council (MFS) militia as well as the Sutoro police force to protect Assyrian communities in their settlement areas in northeast Syria.[4]

Other Assyrian membership organisations, in particular those upholding a more traditional interpretation of Assyrian identity, are critical of Dawronoye. With respect to Syria, such organisations have alleged "continued attempts of the PYD to divide and rule the Assyrians in Syria."[5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Carl Drott (25 May 2015). "The Revolutionaries of Bethnahrin". Warscapes.
  2. 1 2 "The establishment of Nineveh Plain Forces – NPF". Syriac International News Agency. 7 January 2015. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  3. ↑ "NPF: Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian people of Iraq liberate their Christian homeland from ISIS". Syriac International News Agency. 30 May 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  4. ↑ "Qamishli's Cold War". Middle East Online. 18 November 2013.
  5. ↑ OCP (11 November 2015). "Assyrian Organizations Issue Joint Statement on Human Rights Violations in North-east Syria". OCP Media Network.
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