When You Erase Our Assyrian Name, You Erase Our Humanity

In northern Iraq, there is a city named Baghdeda, meaning "house of youth." The name comes from Iraq's indigenous people—the Assyrians. We have called it that for thousands of years. After migrating in the 1500s, the Ottomans began calling the city Qaraqosh, meaning "black bird" in Turkish. It is…

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