Assyrians of today

The Syriacs, Chaldeans, Maronites, Nestorians and the Jacobites are all Assyrians with diffrent christian denominational names. The Chaldeans of today have no relation to the chaldeans of 3000 years ago. The Chaldean Christian's Patriarch was called the "Patriach of Babylon" by Rome in the 1500's. Since he was called that, the followers of that church called themselfs what the babylonians called them selfs. The Syriac Denomination is named after our lauguage. We the all speak the lauguage Syriac (AKA Neo-Aramiac). The Maronites mostly in Lebnon call them self that because hundreds of years ago thier bishops name was Mar Onite. That bishop broke of the main Assyrian Church (Church of the East) and all his followers called them selfs Maronites. The Syriacs also call them self Jacobities( i have no clue way). As for the Kurds.  Kurds are NOT Assyrians.  90 years ago, the turks were killing and forcing Assyrians to accept islam. The Assyrians who accepted islam called them selfs kurds because the muslims in the area were kurds. Once an Assyrian leaves Christianity they either are considered Arabs, Kurds or Turks in the Middle East. Their is no such thing as an Assyrian Muslim. Their are muslims whos background is Assyrian. During Saddams Riegn, in Iraq Assyrians(including the christians) by law were either considered Kurds or Arabs. Many lost thier idenity.

"Christian Assyrians are the indigenous people of north Iraq. Assyrians have staunchly resisted assimilation by local hegemonies, whether Arabization, Turkification or Kurdification. They are divided among several churches, as members of the Assyrian Church of the East (Nestorian), the Chaldean Catholic Church of Babylon, and the Syrian Orthodox Church - who read and write Syriac, a Semitic language which is used in their religious observances. The Assyrians descend from the Assyrian nation that conquered ancient Syria, Israel and Mesopotamia in the 8th and 7th century BC ([1] (http://www.aina.org/articles/assyrianidentity.pdf) Assyrian Identity) and have maintained their separate identity (Genetic Differentiation In Iranian Christian Communities."

http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Assyrian

Edited by AssyrianMan7

My village used to be in Turkey along with thousands of others, most of
the Assyrians of today are from turkey. If turkey never commited a
genocide why aren't the thousands of villages from 90 years ago still
there. Both the Kurds and the turks managed to get the Assyrians out of
Southeast turkey an area that was entirely Assyrian with a little kurds.
Thier still are one or two villages left but they are all islamic now. I am
not saying turkey is the only country that have kill innocent people, what i
am trying to say is turkey is the only left to admit kill inocent people.

This is really foolish.

What Akkadian, what babylonian, what assyrians you are talking about? Those people were all extinct.

The people who are called as Assyrians are nothing more than a group of Christian of the Middle East. If they could be succesful in imposing their Christinanity while they were struggling to do it against Greek speaking Orthodox church the history would be very interestingly different.

Assyrians cannot show an ethnicity. They were devoted Christians of Middle East speaking Aramaic, a western dialect of Semitic language, (different than real Assyrian since it is eastern Semitic) who have been reached until Cental Asia as missionaires. Some Turkish Kagan have been accepted Christianity and became Nestorian Christian. It is known that there were Turks who have been converted to Nestorian. Assyrians in Turkey use mostly Turkish in praying.

The Chaldean Christian's Patriarch was called the "Patriach of Babylon" by Rome in the 1500's. I am sure that before this event they were not calling themselves as Chaldeans......

Actually Asoristan applied to the northern part of Iraq and the northeastern part of Syria east of the Euphrates.  The southern part of Iraq was known as Mesan.  Since Aramaic-speaking peoples predominated in "Assyria", all the Aramaeans of these regions were "Assyrians".  The extended name of Assyria which was used for all northern Mesopotamia (from the Lower Zab in the east to the Euphrates in the west) from the time of the Assyrian Empire to the Islamic conquest was peopled by Aramaeans.