 They emphasized how the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne denied the Assyrian-Syriac people in Turkey their national rights and oppression faced by Assyrian-Syriacs in Turkey.At its first congress in 2000, the PROB reorganized as the Bethnahrin Freedom Party, which was listed as a terrorist organization by the Turkish government in 2001.According to Wladimir van Wilgenburg, the GHB's founder, Numan Ogur, was kidnapped in 2003 after an attempt to try to leave the organization.