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a group of syriac orthodontics christians returning to their ancestral home in south eastern turkey. we want to revitalize the village, which has been vacant for the past 2 decades. stuff in santa fe story. it was to die your living, you know, it should. it's beautiful. here we have everything as christians, we don't have the freedom one dreams of what we're trying to win, that freedom of car and start living here again. living here on so funny. this is the village of east bar rock and south eastern turkey. not far from the border to syria. most of the houses here are deserted or old ruins is just a handful of people live here now, but among them is a woman who has returned relatively recently. a syriac orthodox none per day begins

at sunrise with morning prayers. sure. to be sure to sign with me and i shall. he's been stressed out to him to do i'm sisterhood to need to go into bolton. i was born in this house on april, 2nd, 1972. and i lived here until the age of 15. from i'm from felicia. every day after morning prayers, a tune or 2 gone, goes for a walk around the village, which she calls xyz, its original name, and the aromatic language. when she was growing up here, it was still home to 270 christian families. them all for you have off imagine that here was, are pound my father and the other men would dive in here and could hold their

breaths long enough to swim underwater to the other side. like an awesome guy, it was teeming with lives. even here of these and russell dies in the 19 eighties and nineties, this area was the scene of a military conflict between the turkish army and curtis, p. k. k. militias, the christians always in the minority here were costs between the 2 sides. stevens, exhibitor we are neither turks, nor curves, is just like we are or may, it presents this and spice time. we were basically being crushed between 2 stony supply and there was no way we could stay here. so we tried to persevere. war until the death threats and so on and guns. in 1985, one such threat was made to her father by curtis and neighbors. he decided to sleep with his wife and 10 children to germany, and i never was in that same week we left for a symbol. and once we had our passports and tickets, we flew to germany and every single day since 1985 i dreamt of being here in the village on diplomacy, a m dot in germany became

a 2nd tell him to have to know. but she never forgot where she came from. and she always held tight to her syriac orthodox space. when she was of age, she decided to become a nun. over 30 years after moving to germany, she returned to her in central home and 2017 feeling her father's dying. wish 9 papa. so i told him my father was very ill in 2014. 0 my god, nobody changed nurse. so i watched over him. i mean, i was with him day and night onto and shortly before he died he said to me in deep breath, my dear his daughter, my wishes for life to return to the village without a village, he said, but i can stop. after her father's passing, she used her inheritance to start rebuilding. our family home is ok. so voice usually when i arrived at this well, had practically collapsed, is one here. it was all really on the who in here on here that's really it was important to restore the old houses size of your dollars to leave the rather than.

ready the husband and these are the original stones, the i was born right here and there was a rocker. my mother hung the rope and there was a baby to rock them to and fro, show tune it is a member of the syriac christian minority, also known as aromatic, syrian called in, or syria. the aromatic word for syria. their ancestors are believed to have been one of the very 1st christian communities over the centuries, the group with its longstanding religious beliefs and own customs in language, came under repeated attacks and a predominantly muslim region. most decided to flee their homeland. only

about 2000 christians still live in the area one percent of the communities numbers a century ago. in the today, there are around 300000 syriac orthodox christians, living outside turkey, primarily in europe and the united states, almost half of the diaspora has found a new home in germany in the town at the time dissing in south western germany, the syriac orthodox community comprises some 500 families, the z mon, who's it was 17 when his family moved to germany from eastern turkey in 1990 the

via hobbin. i think as christian was, we were looking for a new home that was christian. so we were looking in europe. i hope i could do. yeah, we heard there was democracy, freedom them and weren't via i guess and above all peace slide please. and that was here and in your overall appeal and i get my oil. but zima learned german and after doing an apprenticeship as a hair dresser opened his own salon and met georgette. she too is christian and had to emigrate it to germany from syria and 2000. the couple now have 2 sons and a daughter. every sunday, after church service, the family gathers together for lunch. so i cannot say no, probably our children were all born here. where there are other traditions stealing vehicles. we've tried to find a compromise that includes our ancestors, vague meetings, vague. so if in english are him isn't to assimilate. jo bonds we have what's rather

to integrate yet than the intake. i mean really make an effort on that front of you out. i need just telling me she of what she's at home both here under turkey. i don't know how i see this having 2 homes. i my one is the home of my parents. the other is the home. i was born in the wonderful day for the 1st 10 years after leaving turkey. the moment it was that did not dare venture back, but later, whenever it felt safe to do so, he visited the village where he was born and grew up. in some sense, he never truly left it behind the dark based on the day when you're there, you feel grounded about and so by the but every time we leave this homeland, you think man, when will i be back about? oh wow. and there's always the question of why i leave on break. yeah, i wish that search find out. go back for good. is what does a teacher hold?

sean really does way on your mind body to get done. can you because of the o. z mon and soon heading off for a vacation in his homeland, he always stops by his parents place to say good bye. before setting off. they live in a neighboring apartment block sale alone moms feel like i'm off to our village and wanted to see could buy to you both need to know how the head of the this is manny. i'm an alias is that we're farmers and eastern turkey. they ran a small village store and made drugs out. in 1990 they fled to germany, bearing for their own safety. amid the conflict between the muslim turks and kurtz v as in the that's why we have seen in germany for 32 years to the day,

signed the above on the my dad has never been back home. the mom has been able to go twice to the milwaukee with it, so i'm on the wrong english. this a and don't go back to the homeland without saying good bye 1st. and then other than kidney stone, we need their prayers for us. it is a beautiful and so when we arrive back here, we always go straight to them that so then turkey does not recognize the syriac orthodox christians as a religious minority. but the state does give land and churches back to those returning people from the diaspora are now rebuilding their old communities here near the syrian border. they're restoring old houses and constructing new ones. most of the christians, however, only spend their summer vacations in their incest row villages. the

exhaust, too, there are several new and restored homes, standing among the ruins. the largest house in the village belongs to sisterhood 2 and a 2 gun which she built next to her parents. old home. she wants to provide other attorneys with a roof over their heads while their homes are under construction. a yam hey, but we already have beds made up here. we have some bunk beds that hold on and off the rooms are finished. everything is ready to go on the system and here's another room that sleeps for that. so 10 people can stay the night here. i have 32 beds up here in total land because he's been to and his plans for the house don't. and there, she also wants to set up a kind of school and helping women whose family stayed in the region and who never went to school. she's already acquired 18 laptops and 12 sewing machines for the project. it's moved to

a computer. i think i want to offer computer courses and showing lessons here which pieces 5, because those are jobs you can do from home to them. and that's clear and has come . and us been having that training means you at least have a profession, minutes and moving on. tom sisterhood. tonight is a member of a serious orthodox church. in germany. in 2011, she launched the foundation, which has a special focus on supporting girls and women. it now has around $7000.00 volunteers running schools and other projects and $33.00 countries in addition to her parents house to and it has also inherited land here a $28.00 hector's and total equivalent of around 20 soccer pitches. ready the bulldozers she's hired spent weeks clearing the rich soil of rocks and stones. via here we're going to have an olive grove with pistachio trees on the biggest lot

of land surrounded by grapevines, beautifying told him, and god willing will have our 1st harvest and some 5 years time. talked often. this is my home who i buy, all of this used to be formed a good time. we planted grain here, but there is nobody doing that now. no more despite the fertile soil to board during the summer months 2 and a sister also lives in size. norah built a house in the village last year and now helps out. the 2 women planted sumac shrubs here. the plants, dried berries are made into a popular spice. about 2 and a had to do a great deal of convincing. before nora was ready to make the move back home. yeah . that's what's happening to my what hotel now has achieved so far and is still doing go is just an extraordinary must have to do model, must long some long,

some sounding. so my sister little by little, many people are putting fear aside and finding their way back here. beat up someone to come in. ready once they've harvested enough to mac berries, they plan to sell the spice and the region around 70 kilometers away is the villages nadine, parson, and turkish. in the summer, at least the centuries old christian churches have full congregations again. the dean is the home village of e mail and is that the hurry to make it in time for the service? just after arriving to the area in the afterwards, the worshippers gathered to share a meal. hello and enjoy your meal.

now do this month, do you see faces that you haven't seen in years? if you come once a year or once a decade, you meet new people, which is lovely as tradition dictate the food is being provided by the relatives of a person who recently passed away. there's about 300 people here today about 20 minutes and this is the, this is the son of the deceased lead food and owner of his father. the after 2 hours of chatting with other church goers. z moselle takes off on a tour around medina. it's only the 2nd time. see mountains, youngest son, my time is visiting the village of his ancestors yourself if i've seen, but the last halter here not to under different things you can do here compared to

germany, must be like, drive a tractor on a motorbike. all the altura car, the button baton. it isn't just here to have fun. see mon and georgette want their son to learn more about the culture of his ancestors. at a special summer course, more gabrielle is the oldest surviving syriac orthodox monastery in the world. both z mon and his brothers spent a few days here when they were 14, the should. it was great to be here a little bit of it seemed if i hope he likes it, that it will be interesting for him to spend a few nights here to get an idea of what things used to be like. and the whole land lake was like in a monastery on the high month of all the month, open and close. i'm glad i found it. in the late 4th century, the monastery offers courses in the arabic language and about the culture of the

syria orthodox community. welcome much. i already has aromatic lessons, twice a week back in germany, but that's not enough in his father's arts kind of go to boost lives in the united states. every summer she brings her son here to spend a month that more gabrielle sure. that the students are so happy here officially and they do voluntary work in the monastery. but there's time for other things to luckily pray. 3 times a day when there are no ceremonies, schedule the bow down before god. it's not difficult to cool. the monastery can accommodate up to 30 students, religious education and language lessons as well as meals are funded by donations from other syriac orthodox christians. but tight isn't yet sure if he wants to return for his next summer vacation.

over and size a toner has visitors arriving from germany today. friends of our sister, nura from fryeburg and that's not, i mean they're in there which i can read and do. it's about the church in the building is from before the christian era, 1800 b c. how many can you see the remark? writing? it's likely that this place was used by son worshippers. there used to be windows here, and there is the entrance to the underground city just that's the, i'm exhausted. the company can be there are simply no words to con. taken this expanse, you can look in all directions as far as the i can see this the oh go by the button . that's good. this is those these elementary interior got the ones down there. thats hours to enter the mountain where the houses are. those houses the church was

closed for a period of 30 years. a toner has since had it restored with the help of other former residents. i'm going to show you where we were all baptized, all 10 brothers and sisters. the baptismal font has been restored. we were all baptized here. one of the children in the village. this discharge was the most wonderful childhood memory for all of us. they put one other king, death on the shooting of the best was all stay and stay because the entire village would gather in the courtyard to eat together. and so young an old i'm to get seated. we'll have a lot to take home with us. we'll be thinking of you. that's nice. yeah, cuz it's completely different from here to germany, also in terms of advancing their religion. what i now understand where you feel

homesick of time. we're grateful for your invitation full frontier. there's a major festival coming up in 6 weeks time. a ton of hopes that the church is us will be full of people again, just like it used to be. marty and the largest city in the area has been a melting pot of cultures and religious faith for thousands of years with the east of turkey now relatively peaceful. again, the tourists have started coming back. they numbered some 4000000 and 2021. despite the cobit 19 pandemic, strong, the city name of this is the oldest syrian quarter, and then we'll go to the curricular church. many of the people on this tour of christian sides by muslim turks in 2021, 9 churches and monasteries in martin were added to your nest goes tentative list of new world cultural heritage sites. it's on this journal. this is one of the few

places where you can hear church bells, london was india and we thought it. so let me check the treasure that she's. it's just my 5th time here. i wanted to show my friends have beautiful it is the community seems close knit and the people do a lot to preserve their culture. large christians, in this area, were known for crafting silver jewelry and producing wine. just a few decades ago, the letter was met with fierce opposition in the region. $1700.00 and the drinking wine is a sin and islam. whereas for christians, it's sacred, somebody on it. when people used to have an issue with it. so we start, someone maybe even refused to sell their grapes, sought by the instructor on as it got more popular posts and people started making and selling wind themselves such a lot in this era of reconciliation, that ancient culture is now being marketed in new ways. august 15th is

assumption day. an important holiday for christians here, worshippers gather for a ceremony in the church of saint mary and the village a passed among them. our sister had 202 gun n z moment was the. it's a wonderful coincidence. i find someone i played soccer with 31 years ago and title that and he was a right that was a left back. the ceremony is being held down in the courtyard as there isn't enough space in the church for 500 worshippers. the service lasts over 2 hours, which is standard, in aramaic christian tradition. i wasn't

expecting so many people. it's amazing and lovely to get a real experience of who i liked it. it wasn't like it is in germany. we don't have many monasteries like this there. i'd like to come here more often. after the ceremony comes the traditional feast. assumption day marks the end of a fasting period for syriac orthodox christians. after abstaining from meat and dairy products for 15 days. the next day the mound visits the sides and medina where his grandfather's house once stood. it was the 2nd home for the moment until he and his family immigrated to germany. since he now owns the land he could rebuild it. but does he want to tell? i'm going to be honest,

i haven't proceeded dream like that yet. so income have vision only last year with different dreams of building a new life in europe. i'm doing 1st, thanks to god this my an oil managed to do all the good side down. yes. so, so i'll get you in the phrase and this pieces of what is the most precious thing you can have. and then he, us citizen says there's peace here. maybe that dream will come to life itself without noise. have they get around? 40 new houses had been built by christian families in medina, over the past decade. the contributions from the diaspora and the turkish states have also paid for a new sewage system, as well as the street lighting and upgraded power lines. the z mona's visiting is and sean and uncle, as ease. they were also born in medina,

but unlike the moment they never left the village to shield out of a 150 families and 50 left. 5 of the couples, 10 children, live abroad. aziz and shoshone would love to see them return home permanently be yours, it should be these 3 have come here from you. you could give them the entire village and they still didn't come back to me. my father's rights getting married, so i'm not planning on coming back. i would like somebody that took us a long time to build up a new life abroad. it wasn't easy. i got all of the or turn the music. we had quite a few difficulties at 1st electric, but now we've adjusted the other stuff and even a light came back and my children wasn't that much. the every time's email and visit says,

childhood village. she feels torn. he and his family have a good life in germany. medina, it says past codes, it become a future home for his family. the vehicle are not finished. we can't just leave behind our children. and i have them when they get married and maybe have kids. i become a grand that visual for life and then maybe after i'm retired, i could come here more often and for longer i live in the but my children would definitely not come with me. i'm a 100 and i'm not sure my wife would either. well then it's something we've never really talked about because it's simply not an option, right. nice, but you invite these buys, coming to visit. sure. but living here, honestly, it's still too early to say yeah, they've been. no, it's so flu guns that the

weather. uh, 4 weeks later, it's now late september and the most important festival of the year is underway inside the villages, patron saint dean is being honored to do guns which has come true with members of the diaspora attending in large numbers of awesome. yeah. okay. i think i'm either all originally from the village. they've come from suite in the netherlands, germany and belgium to celebrate the festival packhorse for us to fire this into yeah, from florida. i've already seen 5 people who i went to school with the guns and she gets them of the week i decided to reunite with everyone again con around 300 syriac orthodox christians have come home at least for the duration of the festival. the festival in the

throes building a house means re discovering their routes and increasing the place where we can feel at home on the so we feel secure. loved one mind giving me a guy to get logan. i leave it fits. it's also about 3 discorporate. the traditional values that define or people might index the sometimes they went to cry, tears of joy, but i tried to hold myself together. we age thing and prayed together. everything is one community. we're back together again, and that's the most beautiful thing about life in a village community name, it's the way it once was and is now again, this is what i want you to be doing. 17 families have plans to build new homes or

restore old ones here in size. a 2 and a 2 gun has been traveling across the world to support your foundations, educational projects. but she's always happiest in her village. her old and new home the let someone else through the see the highlights of selected for you. you every week . a new a box subscribe. now. imagine that you're eating a hamburger. and as you're biting into this juicy burner, your dining companion says to you, actually that hamburger is not made from the house. it's made from golden retriever's. 2 2 should we. 2 2 2 2 2 2 in

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