Ashour Yousef

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Ashour Yousif Effendi ( Aramaic ܐܫܘܪ ܝܘܣܦ ܐܦܢܕܝ Ašur Yousep Afendi ; * 1858 as Abraham Yusef in Charpert , Ottoman Empire ; † June 23, 1915 in Diyarbakır ) was an Assyrian-born professor, journalist and an Assyrian ethnic group leader before the First World War . He was one of the victims of the Assyrian genocide in 1915.

Ashour Effendi grew up in Tur Abdin and was a member of the Syrian Orthodox Church , he later became a Protestant Christian like his wife Arshaluys Oghkasian, daughter of an Armenian Protestant minister. He graduated from Central Turkey College in Antep and later became Professor of Literature at Euphrates College in Charpert near Elazığ . In 1909, after the Young Turkish Revolution , Ashour Effendi began to publish a Turkish language newspaper, the Murschid Athuriyion ("the spiritual leader of the Assyrians"). In an article dated October 20, 1914, he wrote:

"The hindrance before the advancement of the Assyrian people was not so much the attacks from without as it was from within, the doctrinal and sectarian disputes and struggles, like Monophysitism (One nature of Christ) Dyophysitism (Two natures of Christ) is a good example, these caused division, spiritually, and nationally, among the people who quarreled among themselves even to the point of shedding blood. To this very day the Assyrians are still known by various names, such as Nestorians, Jacobites, Chaldeans "

Ashour Effendi and his brother Donabed Effendi were arrested on April 19, 1915 together with other Assyrian intellectuals from Charpert, tortured and later all hanged together in Diyarbakır . Before his execution, Ashour Yousef Effendi was able to write a letter to his brother Hanna Yousef Effendi from prison.

Ashour Yousef Effendi's children and grandchildren wrote numerous books about him. On June 24, 2006, Ashour Yousef's great-grandson Tigran Hovsepyan gave an emotional speech in the Assyrian Society of UK about the genocide of the Aramaeans and praised politicians from the United Kingdom , especially Councilor Mike Elliot and MP Stephen Pound for their efforts this theme.

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  1. ↑ "The reasons behind the retrogression of the Assyrian people". An article by Ashur Yusef, published on 20 October 1914.
  2. ↑ http://www.bethsuryoyo.com/images/Articles/AshurYousif/ArDocs27.jpg
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SURNAME Yousef, Ashour
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yusuf, Ashur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Victims of the genocide of the Aramaeans
DATE OF BIRTH 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Charpert , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1915
Place of death Diyarbakır