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The '''Assyrian Genocide''' (also known as '''''Sayfo''''' or '''''Seyfo''''') was committed against the [[Assyrian people|Assyrian/Syriac]] population of the [[Ottoman Empire]] during the [[World War I|First World War]]. The Assyrian population of northern [[Mesopotamia]] (the [[Tur Abdin]], [[Hakkari]], [[Van]], [[Siirt]] regions of present-day southeastern [[Turkey]] and the [[Urmia]] region of northwestern [[Iran]]) was forcibly relocated and massacred by [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] ([[Turkish people|Turkish]]) and [[Kurdish people|Kurdish]] forces between 1914 and 1920.
 
The death toll of the [[Assyrian genocide]] was approximately 250,000, according to contemporary and more recent sources. "In 1918, according to the Los Angeles Times, Ambassador Morgenthau confirmed that the Ottoman Empire had 'massacred fully 2,000,000 men, women, and children -- Greeks, Assyrians, Armenians; fully 1,500,000 Armenians.'"<ref>Hannibal Travis, '' 'Native Christians Massacred': The Ottoman Genocide of the Assyrians During World War I'', Genocide Studies and Prevention, Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 327, December 2006 [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=950428]</ref> With 250,000 Greeks among the dead, that makes Ambassador Morgenthau's estimate of Assyrian deaths about 250,000.<ref>Ibid., pp. 335, 337</ref>
 
The Assyrian genocide took place in the same context and time-period as the [[Armenian genocide|Armenian]] and [[Greek genocide|Greek]] genocides<ref>Schaller, Dominik J. and Zimmerer, Jürgen (2008) "Late Ottoman genocides: the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and Young Turkish population and extermination policies - introduction," ''Journal of Genocide Research'', 10:1, 7 - 14</ref>. Contemporary sources usually speak of the events in terms of an [[Assyrian genocide]], along with the [[Armenian genocide]] and [[Greek genocide]] by the Ottoman Empire, listing the Greek Orthodox, Syriac Christian and Armenian Christian victims together. For example, the International Association of Genocide Scholars reached a consensus that "the Ottoman campaign against Christian minorities of the Empire between 1914 and 1923 constituted a genocide against Armenians, Assyrians, and Pontian and Anatolian Greeks."<ref>International Association of Genocide Scholars, International Association of Genocide Scholars Officially Recognizes Ottoman Genocides Against the Armenians, Assyrians, and Hellenics (Dec. 26, 2007), http://www.genocidescholars.org/images/PRelea
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The [[Armenians]], [[Greeks]] and [[Assyrian people|Assyrians]] were the subject of forced relocations and executions, a possible cause being religious persecution of the [[Christianity|Christian]] community of [[Anatolia]]. The Assyrians were included as a subsection of the Armenians.
 
The Assyro-Chaldean National Council stated in a December 4, 1922, memorandum that the total death toll was unknown, but it estimated that about 275,000 "Assyro-Chaldeans" died between 1914 and 1918.<ref name = "Yacoub">Joseph Yacoub, La question assyro-chaldéenne, les Puissances européennes et la SDN (1908–1938), 4 vol., thèse Lyon, 1985, p. 156.</ref>
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==Political situation before World War I==
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