Marta Sömek

Şimuni Diril, a Chaldean couple believed to have disappeared in the village of Mehre in Şırnak on January 7, 2020, was found murdered by their children on March 17. Hurmüz Diril, who turns 76 today, has been missing for five years. His daughter, Gülcan Diril Üzümcü, said, "My father's age remains 71. This is murder, and my father is missing. I do not accept its normalization. As Assyrians and Chaldeans, meeting our demand for justice is not a favor, but an urgent necessity."

The Syriac community in Turkey, which has only one kindergarten, is unable to benefit from the right to education in their mother tongue. Thanks to the initiative of Adem Coşkun, an expert on the Syriac people and president of the Turabdin Institute, the first Syriac language course in the history of the Republic was launched in March in Midyat. Coşkun, who taught 29 students over the three-month course, stated, “The Syriac people must preserve their mother tongue.”