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Defixiones

This page contains Papers, writing and a compilation of academic papers and other resources related to the subject matter of Diamanda Galás' song cycle Defixiones, Will and Testament.

Defixiones, Will and Testament concerns genocide; that is an attempt to brutally crush and erase a civilization by any means necessary in its entirety.  Also, the work concerns those who must live in exile as a means to escape and the desire to document one's existence -- to leave behind proof of life.


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Days of Tragedy in Armenia: Personal Experiences in Harpoot, 1915-1917
Riggs, Henry H.

Turkey's Dark Secret Resonating the Airwaves
Eastern Star News, March 2008

Turkish Police Knew About the Planning of the Murder of Hrant Dink
Eastern Star News, March 2008

Report on the Freedom of Publishing
Turkish Publishing Association [updated November 2007]

House Panel Helps End the Cycle of Genocide
Nikolaos Taneris, October 11, 2007

Crimes of Turkish Misrule by Albert Mackenzie
The New York Times, October — 1922       

Congressman Dan Burton Makes Anti-Cyprus Remarks
Cypress Action Network

Ugandan Outing of Homosexuals 'Chilling': activists
CBC News

Writers On Trial
by Elif Shafak

Author's trial set to test Turkey
BBC News

AINA: Guest Editorial: Democracy in Iraq or Ethnic Cleansing of the Assyrians?
by William Warda

A letter from Theodoros Georgiou Karakostas to the American Enterprise Institute

A letter from Theodoros Georgiou Karakostas to Human Rights Watch

Turkey: Pamuk Trial Tests Commitment to Free Speech

Three Turkish Voices
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Letter to the Editor of the National Herald
by Sofia Kontogeorge Kostos

In Istanbul, a Crack in the Wall of Denial

Guest Editorial: A Cry of Help By the Assyrians

BBC: Armenian forum ban splits Turks

Assyrian Woman Brutally Murdered By Muslim Extremists in North Iraq

Turkish Nationalists Hurl Eggs, Protest Photography Show about 1955 Pogroms

Pride in Refusing to Kill

Iraqis Squeezed Out By Kurdish Expansion, Muslim-Centric Constitution  Turkey Policies on Minorities Spark Debate  One Down, Two to go in Government Truth Twisters
Hellenic News of America Op-Ed Column
November 7, 2004 (originally published July 26, 2004) 

Warden Message from the American

Embassy in Greece concerning the recognition
of the Republic of Macedonia

November 5, 2004 

Barnabus Fund Issues Urgent Appeal on Behalf of Iraq's Assyrians
November 4, 2004

World Maronites Condemn Iraq Church Attacks, Call for Emergency Action
October 19, 2004 

Amid Escalating Fear of Massacres, Assyrians Commemorate Martyr's Day
August 7, 2004

New Iraqi Census Officially Recognizes Chaldo Assyrians
July 9, 2004 

The Application of Autonomy to the Assyrian Territory in the New Democratic Iraq

by Dr. Khoshaba Jasim
June 28, 2004

Terrorist Attacks on Assyrians Intensify

June 20, 2004

Mandates or War?
by Henry Morgenthau
NY Times, November9, 1919

BLACK SEPTEMBER
Hellenic Genocide

Looting of Iraq's Treasures a Profound Loss for Assyrians
Assyrian International News Agency
Apr 19, 2003

We, the Kurds, Demand Turkish troops to stop entering South Kurdistan Immediately.
by:Steve Raza Tataii, Kurdistan Observer 
Mar 22, 2003

Turkey Uses U.S. Arms to Attack Kurds
by Jennifer Washburn, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Thursday, September 7, 1995

Transatlantic rivalry has put the Turks in a bind with their allies
by Mohammad Noureddine

Press Release from Governor Pataki
October 6, 2002

The Prostitution of Freedom and the Kurds
by Kani Xulam

Opium of the masses?
by Gamal Nkrumah

Crisis of Eastern Christians and the War on Terrorism
by Theodore G. Karakostas

War on Terrorism
by Jonathan Curiel

The Forgotten Christians of the East
by Theodore G. Karakostas

Article by Christos Yiannaras

The Assyrians in the Christian Asia Minor Holocaust
by Panayiotis Diamadis

Turkish Model Not for Iran
by Vahid Isabeigi