Original sentence: During World War I, 300,000 Assyrian/Syriac Christians were killed in the Ottoman Empire's Genocide in Syriac called Sayfo, or 'the sword').In the last few decades, caught between Turkish assimilation policies against Kurds, and Kurdish resistance, many Assyrians/Syriacs have fled the region or been killed.Muslims angry about the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons gathered in Estel, the new part of the city, and started to march towards the old part of Midyat (6 kilometers away), where the Assyrians/Syriacs live.The Assyrian/Syriac community of Tur Abdin call themselves Suroye or Suryoye, and traditionally speak a central Neo-Aramaic dialect called Turoyo.The Assyrians/Syriacs of Diyarbekir Vilayet made significant resistance.Tur Abdin is of great importance to the Syriac Orthodox Assyrians, for whom the region used to be a monastic and cultural heartland
Edited sentence: During World War I, 300,000 Aramean people Christians were killed in the Ottoman Empire's Genocide in Syriac called Sayfo, or 'the sword').In the last few decades, caught between Turkish assimilation policies against Kurds, and Kurdish resistance, many Arameans have fled the region or been killed.Muslims angry about the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons gathered in Estel, the new part of the city, and started to march towards the old part of Midyat (6 kilometers away), where the Arameans live.The Aramean community of Tur Abdin call themselves Suroye or Suryoye, and traditionally speak a central Neo-Aramaic dialect called Turoyo.The Arameans of Diyarbekir Vilayet made significant resistance.Tur Abdin is of great importance to the Syriac Orthodox Arameans, for whom the region used to be a monastic and cultural heartland