Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council
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Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council ܡܘܬܒܐ ܥܡܡܝܐ ܟܠܕܝܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ ܐܬܘܪܝܐ
المجلس الشعبي الكلداني السرياني الآشوري | ||
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Kurdistan Parliament: 2 / 111 | ||
Seats in the local governorate councils: | 2 / 440 | |
The Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council (CSAPC,
The party was established in order to represent political interests of
The Party runs Ishtar TV and publishes several different monthly magazines.
The party is closely affiliated with the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and is mostly funded by Nechirvan Barzani.
On July 22, 2023 the party joined the Athra Alliance, a political alliance representing Assyrian–Chaldean–Syriac interests in Iraq.
Results
In the
On July 25, 2009, the party ran for the first time on its own for the 111-member
On March 7, 2010, Iraq held its parliamentary elections, where the party won 2 of the 5 reserved seats. The coalition maintained their seats during the 2014 parliamentary elections.
However, in recent years, the council has lost all elections that it has participated, due to the rise of pro-Iranian affiliated Babylon Movement, and the decline of Nechrivan Barzani's power within the KDP, leading to the rise of Ano Abdoka's Hammurabi Coalition.
Military wing
The Nineveh Plain Guard Forces (NPGF) is composed of former members of the Church Guards that was forced to disband and disarm in 2014 as Kurdish officials began confiscating weapons that belonged to local Assyrians prior to the ISIS invasion that left the Assyrians defenceless.
It's estimated that they currently have 1,500 Assyrian soldiers under Peshmerga command[7]
See also
- Qaraqosh Protection Committee
- Politics of Iraq
- Ethnic groups in Iraq
- Christianity in Iraq
- Assyrian politics in Iraq
References
- ^ [1]
- ^ Teule 2012, p. 185, 187-188.
- ^ Lalik 2018, p. 224-225, 230.
- ^ BarAbraham 2018, p. 224, 236.
- ^ Salloum 2019, p. 25.
- ^ Overview of Assyrian slates running in the 2009 elections, Fred Aprim
- ^ Contested Control: The Future of Security in Iraq's Nineveh Plain
Sources
- BarAbraham, Abdulmesih (2018). "Safeguarding the Cross: Emergence of Christian Militias in Iraq and Syria". Middle Eastern Christians and Europe: Historical Legacies and Present Challenges. Wien: LIT Verlag. pp. 217–238.
- Dougherty, Beth K. (2019) [2004]. Historical Dictionary of Iraq (3rd ed.). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Lalik, Krzysztof (2018). "Ethnic and Religious Factors of Chaldo-Assyrian Identity in an Interface with the Kurds in Iraqi Kurdistan". Rediscovering Kurdistan’s Cultures and Identities: The Call of the Cricket. Cham: Springer. pp. 213–257.
- Salloum, Saad (2019). "Minorities in Iraq: National Legal Framework, Political Participation, and the Future of Citizenship Given the Current Changes". Beyond ISIS: History and Future of Religious Minorities in Iraq. London: Transnational Press. pp. 11–32.
- Teule, Herman G. B. (2009). "The Christian Minorities in Iraq: The Question of Religious and Ethnic Identity". In-Between Spaces: Christian and Muslim Minorities in Transition in Europe and the Middle East. Brussel: Peter Lang. pp. 45–57.
- Teule, Herman G. B. (2012). "Christians in Iraq: An Analysis of Some Recent Political Developments" (PDF). Der Islam. 88 (1): 179–198.
- Teule, Herman G. B. (2018). "Christians in Iraq: The Transition from Religious to Secular Identity". International Journal of Asian Christianity. 1: 11–24.
- Youkhana, Emanuel (2019). "Fleeing ISIS: Aramaic-speaking Christians in the Niniveh Plains after ISIS". Beyond ISIS: History and Future of Religious Minorities in Iraq. London: Transnational Press. pp. 125–150.