Assyrian Genocide
{'<entity_0>': 'Assyrian Genocide', '<entity_1>': '1914', '<entity_2>': 'Ottoman Empire', '<entity_3>': 'genocide'}
[['Assyrian Genocide', 'instance of', 'genocide'], ['Assyrian Genocide', 'point in time', '1914'], ['Assyrian Genocide', 'location', 'Ottoman Empire']]
The Seyfo or Sayfo (ܣܝܦܐ, literally meaning "sword"; see below) also known as the <entity_0> (Syriac: ܩܛܠܥܡܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ‎, romanized: Qṭālʿammā Sūryāyā) was the mass slaughter and deportation of Assyrians (Nestorian, Syriac and Chaldean Christians) in the <entity_2> and those in neighbouring Persia by <entity_2> troops during the First World War. The Assyrian civilian population of upper Mesopotamia (the Tur Abdin region, the Hakkâri, Van, and Siirt provinces of present-day southeastern Turkey, and the Urmia region of northwestern Iran) was forcibly relocated and massacred by the <entity_2>, together with other armed and allied Muslim peoples, including Kurds and Circassians, between <entity_1> and 1920, with further attacks on unarmed fleeing civilians conducted by local Arab militias. In <entity_1>, the <entity_2> began deporting and massacring Assyrians and Armenians in Van. The degree of the responsibility of the <entity_2> government and whether the <entity_3> had a systematic nature has been the subject of different scholarly opinions. Concerning the responsibility of the <entity_2> government, Hilmar Kaiser wrote that Talaat Pasha ordered the deportations of the Assyrians in the area on <entity_1>, fearing their collaboration with the advancing Russian troops, but the order was postponed and abandoned three days later due to a lack of forces. The <entity_2> invaded northwestern Persia in <entity_1>. The population of the Assyrians of the <entity_2> and Persia was about 600,000 before the <entity_3>, and was reduced by 275,000, with very few survivors in 1930s Turkey or Iran. The following newspaper articles documented the <entity_0> as it occurred: Hannibal Travis, Assistant Professor of Law at Florida International University, wrote in the peer-reviewed journal Genocide Studies and Prevention that: Numerous articles in the American press documented the <entity_3> of Assyrians by the Turks and their Kurdish allies. The Times of London was perhaps the first widely respected publication to document the fact that 250,000 Assyrians and Chaldeans eventually died in the <entity_2> <entity_3> of Christians, a figure which many journalists and scholars have subsequently accepted. However, historian Bülent Özdemir of the Balıkesir University has pointed out to an "Assyrian rebellion" in Midyat in 1915, and said that the <entity_2> cannot be accused of committing a <entity_3> against the Assyrians in any way, claiming that this was supported by documents in foreign archives.
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