The Bet-Nahrain Democratic Party ( syr, ܓܒܐ ܕܝܡܘܩܪܛܝܐ ܕܒܝܬ ܢܗܪܝܢ, Gaba Demoqrataya d-Bet-Nahrain), usually abbreviated as BNDP is an

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political party in

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led by Romeo Nissan Hakkari. One of the party's goals is to create an autonomous Assyrian Administrative Region within the

Assyrian homeland The Assyrian homeland, Assyria ( syc, ܐܬܘܪ, Āṯūr or syc, ܒܝܬ ܢܗܪ̈ܝܢ, Bêth Nahrin) refers to the homeland of the Assyrian people within which Assyrian civilisation developed, located in their indigenous Upper Mesopotamia. Th ...

History

The BNDP was founded on the 21st of March 1974 as a union between the Bet-Nahrain Organization in

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headed by Sargon Dadesho, and the Quest Movement in

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headed by notable individuals such as Gilyana Yonan. BNDP was influential in the development of the

Assyrian flag The Assyrian flag ( syr, ܐܬܐ ܐܬܘܪܝܬܐ or ) is the flag widely used to represent the Assyrian nation in the homeland and in the diaspora. Its two components, the star of Utu/Shamash, which was a symbol for the god Shamash, and which ...

in 1968 alongside the

Assyrian Universal Alliance Assyrian Universal Alliance ( syr, ܚܘܝܕܐ ܬܒ̣ܝܠܝܐ ܐܬܘܪܝܐ, ar, الاتحاد الأشوري العالمي; fa, اتحادیه جهانی آشوریان), usually abbreviated as AUA and popularly known as Khoyada (English: ''U ...

and the Assyrian National Federation. BNDP contested the 2005 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election as part of the ruling

Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan The Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan (DPAK) sometimes referred to simply as the Kurdistan Alliance (KA) is the name of the electoral coalition first presented as a united Kurdish list in the January 2005 election in Iraq. Elections were ...

and were allocated one seat for Romeo Hakkari. It also contested the

January 2005 Iraqi legislative election Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 30 January 2005 to elect the new National Assembly, alongside governorate elections and a parliamentary election in Kurdistan Region. The 275-member legislature had been created under the Transitio ...

as part of the Kurdish alliance, and Goriel Mineso Khamis was allocated one seat in the

Council of Representatives of Iraq The Council of Representatives ( ar, مجلس النواب, Majlis an-Nuwwāb al-ʿIrāqiyy; ku, ئه‌نجومه‌نی نوێنه‌ران, ''Enjumen-e Nûnerên''), usually referred to simply as the Parliament is the unicameral legislature o ...

. It did not participate in the

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In the

Iraqi governorate elections of 2009 Governorate or provincial elections were held in Iraq on 31 January 2009, to replace the local councils in fourteen of the eighteen governorates of Iraq that were elected in the 2005 Iraqi governorate elections. 14,431 candidates, including 3,9 ...

, the BNDP allied itself with the

Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council The Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council (CSAPC, syr, ܡܘܬܒܐ ܥܡܡܝܐ ܟܠܕܝܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ ܐܬܘܪܝܐ ', ar, المجلس الشعبي الكلداني السرياني الآشوري '), popularly known as Motwa, is a political ...

in the

Ishtar Patriotic List The Isthar Patriotic List (Arabic: قائمة عشتار الوطنية) is an Assyrian political list that was formed to run in the 2009 Iraqi governorate elections. The list's biggest party is the Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council, a part ...

. The list won two seats in

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...

and

Ninawa Nineveh (; akk, ; Biblical Hebrew: '; ar, نَيْنَوَىٰ '; syr, ܢܝܼܢܘܹܐ, Nīnwē) was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located in the modern-day city of Mosul in northern Iraq. It is located on the eastern ba ...

, including BNDP member Giwargis Esho Sada in Baghdad. On the 6th of January 2015, the BNDP and Bet-Nahrain Patriotic Union announced the formation of the

Nineveh Plain Forces The Nineveh Plain Forces ( syr, ܚܝ̈ܠܘܬܐ ܕܕܫܬܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ, translit=Ḥaylawotho d'Deshto d'Ninwe) or NPF was a military organization that was formed on 6 January 2015 by the indigenous Christian Assyrian people in Iraq, in cooper ...

to protect the people of the Nineveh Plain and maintain control of the region for people that want to return to the area.

United States

The party is active among

Assyrian Americans Assyrian Americans ( syr, ܣܘܼܖ̈ܵܝܹܐ ܐܲܡܪ̈ܝܼܟܵܝܹܐ) refers to individuals of ethnic Assyrian ancestry born in or residing within the United States of America. Assyrians are an indigenous Middle-Eastern ethnic group native t ...

, where it runs the KBSV (''Assyria Vision'') television station, and the KBES radio station. In 1983 the party set up the "Assyrian National Congress" with the "Assyrian American Leadership Council". In 2002 they entered into an alliance with the Free Officers Movement of exiled military officers led by Najib al-Salhi.Assyrian National Congress
GlobalSecurity, 2005-06-22

References

External links

Party website
Assyrian political parties Political parties in Kurdistan Region Political parties of minorities in Iraq Organizations of the 1991 uprisings in Iraq Assyrians in Iraq Political parties established in 1974 Ethnic political parties 1974 establishments in Iraq {{Iraq-party-stub

History

United States

See also

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