Assyrian genocide

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crime against humanity ethnic cleansing genocide mass killing

The Assyrian genocide was a series of mass killings and deportations of Assyrian Christians by the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
Assyrian genocide continuum	1

Statements (55)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	crime against humanity ⓘ ethnic cleansing ⓘ genocide ⓘ mass killing ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Sayfo ⓘ Seyfo ⓘ Year of the Sword ⓘ
cause	ethnic homogenization policies ⓘ nationalist policies of the Young Turks ⓘ religious persecution ⓘ
commemoratedOn	August 7 ⓘ
commemorationName	Simele massacre ⓘ surface form: Assyrian Martyrs Day
endTime	circa 1920 ⓘ
estimatedDeaths	approximately 250000 to 300000 ⓘ hundreds of thousands ⓘ
ethnicTarget	Assyrians ⓘ
historicalContext	Middle Eastern theatre of World War I ⓘ collapse of the Ottoman Empire ⓘ
location	Bitlis Vilayet ⓘ Diyarbakır ⓘ surface form: Diyarbakır Vilayet Hakkari region ⓘ Ottoman Empire ⓘ Tur Abdin ⓘ Urfa region ⓘ Van Vilayet ⓘ northern Mesopotamia ⓘ Southeastern Anatolia Region ⓘ surface form: southeastern Anatolia
method	death marches ⓘ forced Islamization ⓘ forced deportations ⓘ massacres ⓘ starvation ⓘ
partOf	Ottoman Christian genocides ⓘ wider persecution of Christians in the Ottoman Empire ⓘ
perpetrator	Kurdish militias ⓘ Ottoman Empire ⓘ Ottoman authorities ⓘ Ottoman Army ⓘ surface form: Ottoman military units local irregular forces ⓘ
recognizedBy	International Association of Genocide Scholars ⓘ various national parliaments ⓘ
relatedEvent	Armenian genocide ⓘ Greek genocide ⓘ
religiousTarget	Christians ⓘ
result	destruction of many Assyrian communities in the Ottoman Empire ⓘ large-scale Assyrian diaspora ⓘ severe demographic decline of Assyrians in their historic homelands ⓘ
startTime	1914 ⓘ World War I period ⓘ
timePeriod	World War I ⓘ late Ottoman period ⓘ
victim	Syriacs ⓘ surface form: Assyrian Christians Assyrians ⓘ surface form: Assyrian people Chaldean Catholic Church ⓘ surface form: Chaldean Catholics Syriacs ⓘ surface form: Syriac Christians

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Assyrians → historicalEventExperienced → Assyrian genocide ⓘ

Simele massacre → partOf → Assyrian genocide ⓘ

this entity surface form: Assyrian genocide continuum