Christians in North Syria: Syriacs, Assyrians, Armenians, and Kurdish converts
Christians in North Syria: Syriacs, Assyrians, Armenians, and Kurdish converts

Author(s): Thomas Schmidinger
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Politics and Identity, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Christians; North Syria; Syriacs; Assyrians; Armenians; Kurdish converts;
Summary/Abstract: In Efrîn and North and East Syria, Christians of different ethnicities have had a home next to Muslim, Yazidi, and Alevi Kurds. Especially the Jazira region (Kurdish: Cizîre) has one of Syria’s largest Christian minorities. The attacks by jihadists and the Turkish army threaten these Christians. Before the war, more than 200,000 Christians lived in the region. However, that number might have dropped to less than 100,000 people, because many Christians became victims of attacks by the so-called Islamic state (IS) in 2014and 2015 and by the Turkish-led invasion of October 2019. Others fled to Europe in the years of civil war.

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