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Sayfo
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thumb|upright=1.3|alt=Refugees, some on foot and others riding cattle|Jilu (tribe)|Jilu Assyrians crossing the Asadabad Pass towards [[Baqubah, 1918]]
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- Assyrian genocide
- end time
- 1919-00-00
- start time
- 1915-01-00
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- Terminology
- Background
- Assyrians in the Ottoman Empire
- Worsening conflicts
- World War I
- Ethnic cleansing of Hakkari
- {{anchor|Massacres of Assyrians in the lowlands}}Massacres of lowland Assyrians
- Preparations for war
- Invasion of the highlands
- Ottoman occupation of Azerbaijan{{anchor|Ottoman occupation of Urmia}}
- Massacres
- Butcher battalion in Bitlis
- Diyarbekir
- Targeting of non-Armenian Christians
- Mardin district
- Tur Abdin
- Aftermath
- Ethnic violence in Azerbaijan
- Exile in Iraq
- Assyrians in Turkey
- Paris Peace Conference
- Death toll
- Legacy
- International recognition
- Denial and justification
- References
- Citations
- Sources
- Books
- Chapters
- Journal articles
- Further reading
thumb|upright=1.3|alt=Refugees, some on foot and others riding cattle|Jilu (tribe)|Jilu Assyrians crossing the Asadabad Pass towards [[Baqubah, 1918]]
The Sayfo (, ), also known as the Seyfo or the Assyrian genocide, was the mass murder and deportation of Assyrian/Syriac Christians in southeastern Anatolia and Persia's Azerbaijan province by Ottoman forces and some Kurdish tribes during World War I.