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{{Infobox civilian attack
|title = Assyrian Chaldean Genocide|partof = the [[Assyrian Chaldean people#Persecution|persecution of AssyriansChaldeans]]|image = Assyrian Chaldean genocide o2p.svg
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|caption = Map of the Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac genocide.<br /><span style="color:#b00000; font-size:2.4em;">•</span> Towns where genocide occurred<br />
<span style="color:green; font-size:2.4em;">•</span> Towns that received refugees.<br />
<span style="color:#2e3192; font-size:2.4em;">•</span> Other major cities.<br />{{legend|#ff8080|Regions of Assyrian Chaldean (also known as Syrian, Syriac, Nestorian, and Chaldean) concentrations}}
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|location = {{flag|Ottoman Empire}}
|target = [[Assyrian Chaldean people|AssyrianChaldean]] civilians
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|date = 1914–1918, 1922–1925
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|type = [[Deportation]], [[mass murder]], etc.
|fatalities = 250,000–300,000 <small>(see [[Assyrian Chaldean genocide#Death toll|death toll]] section below)</small>
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{{History of Assyrian Chaldean people}}The '''Assyrian Chaldean genocide''' (also known as '''''Sayfo''''' or '''''Seyfo''''', {{lang-syr|ܩܛܠܐ ܕܥܡܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ}} or {{lang|syr|ܣܝܦܐ}}) refers to the mass slaughter of the [[Assyrian Chaldean people|AssyrianChaldean]] population of the [[Ottoman Empire]] during the [[First World War]], in conjunction with the [[Armenian genocide|Armenian]] and [[Greek genocide]]s.<ref name="Travis2">Travis, Hannibal. ''Genocide in the Middle East: The Ottoman Empire, Iraq, and Sudan''. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2010, 2007, pp. 237–77, 293–294.</ref><ref name="Anahit">Khosoreva, Anahit. "The Assyrian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire and Adjacent Territories" in ''The Armenian Genocide: Cultural and Ethical Legacies''. Ed. [[Richard G. Hovannisian]]. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2007, pp. 267–274. ISBN 1-4128-0619-4.</ref>
The Assyrian Chaldean civilian population of upper [[Mesopotamia]] (the [[Tur Abdin]] region, the [[Hakkâri]], [[Van Province|Van]], and [[Siirt Province|Siirt]] provinces of present-day southeastern [[Turkey]], and the [[Urmia]] region of northwestern [[Iran]]) was forcibly relocated and massacred by the [[Muslim]] [[Ottoman people|Ottoman]] ([[Turkish people|Turkish]]) army, together with other armed and allied Muslim peoples, including [[Kurdish people|Kurds]], [[Chechens]] and [[Circassians]], between 1914 and 1920, with further attacks on unarmed fleeing civilians conducted by local [[Arab]] militias.<ref name="Travis2"/>
Estimates on the overall death toll have varied. Providing detailed statistics of the various estimates of the Churches' population after the genocide, David Gaunt accepts the figure of 275,000 deaths as reported at the [[Treaty of Lausanne]] and ventures that the death toll would be around 300,000 because of uncounted Assyrian-inhabited areas, leading to the elimination of half of the Assyrian nation.<ref name="The Assyrian Genocide of 1915">David Gaunt, [http://www.seyfocenter.com/index.php?sid=2&aID=36 "The Assyrian Genocide of 1915"], ''Assyrian Genocide Research Center'', 2009</ref>
