   the assyrian genocide (also known as sayfo or seyfo,  or ) refers to the mass slaughter of the assyrian population of the ottoman empire during the 1890s and the first world war, in conjunction with the armenian and greek genocides.travis, hannibal. genocide in the middle east: the ottoman empire, iraq, and sudan. durham, nc: carolina academic press, 2010, 2007, pp. 237â77, 293â294.khosoreva, anahit. "the assyrian genocide in the ottoman empire and adjacent territories" in the armenian genocide: cultural and ethical legacies. ed. richard g. hovannisian. new brunswick, nj: transaction publishers, 2007, pp. 267â274. isbn 1-4128-0619-4. the assyrian civilian population of upper mesopotamia (the tur abdin region, the hakkÃ¢ri, van, and siirt provinces of present-day southeastern turkey, and the urmia region of northwestern iran) was forcibly relocated and massacred by the muslim ottoman (turkish) army, together with other armed and allied muslim peoples, including kurds, chechens and circassians, between 1914 and 1920, with further attacks on unarmed fleeing civilians conducted by local arab militias. estimates on the overall death toll have varied. providing detailed statistics of the various estimates of the churches' population after the genocid
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