Original article by Carpe Diem
Much information was sourced from PI News
Fabronia Benno (25) is the first Christian woman to govern one of Turkey’s 30 metropolitan municipalities. Put forward as a candidate by the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), Turkey’s main Kurdish party, in municipal elections on March 30, Fabronia Benno was elected co-mayor of the southeastern City of Mardin together with Ahmet Turk (71) a widely respected veteran Kurdish leader.
Benno, a student and daughter of a silversmith, is a member of the Syriac community, an ancient branch of the Christian faith whose followers still speak a version of Aramaic, the language of Jesus Christ. Althoug Fabronia Benno was born in a region that traces its Christianity back to the time of the Apostles, she is not allowed to use her Christian name officially. “Februniye Akyol” is the name she has been given according toTurkish law.
The last Christian mayor of Idil, a town only 127 kilometres away from Mardin, was Sukru Tutus. He was killed on June 17th, 1994.
Today, fewer than 5,000 Syriacs live in this Turkish region that once used to be the Christian heartland. 150,000 Syriacs live in Germany, Sweden and Switzerland. Some 15,000 live in Istanbul.
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Brava!
Christians were once the majority in what is now known as Turkey. With persecution and resulting emigration, massacres and genocide, Christian population in Turkey is now less then 0.1%.
That is how Muslims like it. Christians reduced to an impotent minority, allowed to exist on sufferance to show the Islamic tolerance, as well allowing Muslims to persecute them when they feel like it.
She has courage but will probably be murdered in a couple of years.