The Syriac Genocide ( also known as Sayfo or Seyfo ) was committed against the Aramaic\/Syriac population of the Ottoman Empire during the First World War by the Young Turks .
The Assyrian Genocide ( also known as Sayfo or Seyfo ) refers to the mass slaughter of the Assyrian\/Chaldean\/Syriac population of the Ottoman Empire during the First World War .