The Sayfo, or Assyrian genocide, have come to be the mass slaughter and deportation of
Assyrian and Syriac Christians in southeastern Anatolia and Persia's Azerbaijan province
devoted with the useful resource of manner of using the usage of manner of using Ottoman
forces and Kurdish tribes in the course of World War I. The Assyrians lived in mountainous and
an extended manner flung regions and had been divided into numerous collectively adverse
church houses. Mass killing of Assyrian civilians commenced out out out in January 1915, with
the useful beneficial useful aid of the Ottoman navy and seasoned-Ottoman Kurds. Attacks on,
massacres of and deportations of Christian populations persisted until 1919, generally managing
first rate sporadic armed resistance. Ottoman Assyrians dwelling in gift-day Iraq and Syria were
now not focused. The Sayfo came about concurrently with and feature turn out to be carefully
related to the Armenian genocide. Motives protected a perceived loss of loyalty amongst some
Assyrian agencies to the Ottoman Empire and a choice to appropriate their land. In 1919 the
Assyrians stated that form of 250,000 were killed within the genocide, approximately half of of
of of of the pre-war population.