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==Death toll==

Scholars have summarized events as follows: specific massacres included 25,000 Chaldeans in Midyat, 21,000 in Jezira-ibn-Omar, 7,000 in Nisibis, 7,000 in Urfa, 7,000 in the Qudshanis region, 6,000 in Mardin, 5,000 in Diyarbekir, 4,000 in Adana, 4,000 in Brahimie, and 3,500 in Harput.<ref name="Anahit"/><ref name="Travis">Travis, Hannibal. "[http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/yv544142p5rnx055/?p=91e7dbe895ec4cbf9eef0ad842fef76a&pi=6 'Native Christians Massacred': The Ottoman Genocide of the Assyrians During World War I]." ''Genocide Studies and Prevention'', Vol. 1, No. 3, December 2006, pp. 327–371. Retrieved 2010-02-02.</ref><ref>Gaunt. ''Massacres, Resistance, Protectors'', pp. 76–77, 164, 181–96, 226–30, 264–67.</ref><ref>{{de icon}} Gorgis, Amill "Der Völkermord an den Syro-Aramäern," in ''Verfolgung, Vertreibung und Vernichtung der Christen im Osmanischen Reich 20''. Ed. Tessa Hoffman. London and Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2004.</ref> In its December 4, 1922, memorandum, the Assyro-Chaldean National Council stated that the total death toll was unknown. It estimated that about 275,000 "Assyro-Chaldeans" died between 1914 and 1918.<ref name="Yacoub">{{fr icon}} Yacoub, Joseph. ''La question assyro-chaldéenne, les Puissances européennes et la SDN (1908–1938)'', 4 vol., thèse Lyon, 1985, p. 156.</ref> The population of the Chaldeans of the Ottoman Empire and Persia was about 600,000 before the genocide, and was reduced by 275,000, with very few survivors in 1930s Turkey or Iran.<ref name="Travis2"/><ref>Gaunt, ''Massacres, Resistance, Protectors'', pp. 21–28, 300–3, 406, 435.</ref> Contemporary newspapers reported death tolls of 200,000 to 250,000.<ref name=Travis/> Representatives from the [[Anglican Church]] in the region claimed that about half of the Assyrian population had perished.<ref name=intro/>