@article{2019,title={THE CHALDEANS IN THE ŞIRNAK REGION WITH RELIGIOUS, HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL DIMENSIONS AND THEIR RELATIONS WITH MUSLIMS},abstractNode={The geography, named as the region of Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia today, had a large number of Chaldean inhabitants in the past. However, the deportation decision taken against Armenians in 1915 also influenced the Chaldeans and most of the Chaldeans were obliged to leave their residential areas in this region. Afterwards, small number of the Chaldeans returned to their villages and continued to live in the region. They were present in the region until the 1990s. However, they were obliged to migrate from the region due to diverse reasons, especially the terrorist incidents in the region in the mentioned period. Some of the Chaldeans who lived in Istanbul and some European countries initiated to resettle in their old villages in the 2000s. Academic works done on these Chaldeans in Turkey are almost nonexistent although they had continuous socio-cultural relations with Muslims in this historical process. For this reason, we can state that the Turkey’s society has rather limited knowledge about them. Starting from this viewpoint, we conducted interviews with the Chaldeans living in the nine Chaldean villages in Şırnak and its vicinity. Thus, we intended to reveal their historical, religious and cultural structures. In addition, we sought to illuminate their relations with the Muslim neighbors with whom they lived together for centuries.},author={Kasım ERTAŞ},year={2019},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}