Assyrian Identity and the Great War

Contents: The Assyrians in history - Who are the Assyrians? Religious sectarianism and missionary activity, The Nestorians, Chaldeans and Syrian Christians in the Ottoman Empire, Syriac-speaking Christians' relations with the Kurds; The Nestorians, Chaldeans and Syrian Christians before the Great War - Location, population movements and culture, Syriac-speaking Christians' relations with the Armenians, Relations with Russia; Nestorians in the ranks of the Entente Powers in the Great War - The Nestorians' declaration of war on the Ottoman State, The Nestorians in British Foreign Policy; The Great War and claims of genocide - Building a myth of genocide: 'Seyfo', The Midyat Rebellion, The Kurds; The Syriac-speaking Christians after the Great War - The Nestorian leader Agha Petros, The Paris Peace Conference, The Conference of Lausanne, Britain and the forgotten promises, The Kingdom of Iraq, the Mosul Problem and the Syriac-speaking Christians; The Turkish Republic and the Syriac-speaking Christians - The Nestorian, Chaldean and Syrian Christian diaspora and identity formation, Organizations, The language problem, The Syriac-speaking Christian community in Sweden; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index