The Assyrian Genocide (also known as Sayfo or Seyfo; Aramaic: Ü©Ü›Ü Ü Ü•Ü¥Ü¡Ü ÜܬܘܪÜÜ or Ü£ÜܦÜ, Turkish: Süryani Soykırımı) was committed against the Assyrian population of the Ottoman Empire near the end of the First World War by the Young Turks. The Assyrian population of northern Mesopotamia (Tur Abdin, Hakkari, Van, Siirt region in modern-day southeastern Turkey and Urmia region in northwestern Iran) was forcibly relocated and massacred by Ottoman (Turkish and Kurdish) forces between 1914 and 1920 under the regime of the Young Turks. This genocide is considered by some scholars to be a part of the same policy of extermination as the Armenian Genocide and Pontic Greek Genocide.The Syriac name Qeá¹lÄ á¸-‘AmÄ Ä€á¹¯Ã»rÄyÄ (Ü©Ü›Ü Ü Ü•Ü¥Ü¡Ü ÜܬܘܪÜÜ), which literally means "killing of the Assyrian people", is used by some groups to describe these events. The word Qá¹olcamo (Ü©Ü›Ü Ü¥Ü¡Ü) which means Genocide is also used in Assyrian diaspora media. Other groups, especially those that do not wish to use the ethnic identifier Assyrian, refer to the genocide as SaypÄ (Ü£ÜܦÜ), pronounced Sayfo in the West Syriac dialect, meaning "sword".The Syriac name Qeá¹lÄ á¸-‘AmÄ Ä€á¹¯Ã»rÄyÄ (Ü©Ü›Ü Ü Ü•Ü¥Ü¡Ü ÜܬܘܪÜÜ), which literally means "killing of the Assyrian people", is used by some groups to describe these events. The word Qá¹olcamo (Ü©Ü›Ü Ü¥Ü¡Ü) which means Genocide is also used in Assyrian diaspora media. Other groups, especially those that do not wish to use the ethnic identifier Assyrian, refer to the genocide as SaypÄ (Ü£ÜܦÜ), pronounced Sayfo in the West Syriac dialect, meaning "sword". It is not known how many died during the event, but estimates go from 500,000-750,000.
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