This volume is collected in honour of professor in Semitic languages, Bo Isaksson, Uppsala University on the occasion of his retirement. The contributions represent different aspects of research in ...

Last autumn, I took my parents on a drive from Ganzantiep in the south of Turkey to Kars in the north east. It is a culturally rich area of the world with ruins of countless civilisations, from ...

Deyrulzafaran Monastery, also known as Saffron Monastery, another major site included in the nomination, served as the seat of the Assyrian Orthodox Patriarchate from 1293 until 1932. Its surviving ...

From a few miles out they looked like Mesopotamia's first skyscrapers, a cluster of silhouettes towering over blood-red farmland. It was only when the cassock-clad monk steered us up the final incline ...

Two more cultural assets of Turkey have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List. With the new additions, 85 cultural assets from Turkey have made it to the list. The historic town of ...

The Christian minority is once again being put under pressure in Turkey. During the first half of January, the Syriac Orthodox Abbot Aho Bilecen and two parishioners were arrested in Tur Abdin, a ...