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Sayfo (Wikipedia)
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A community-edited reference article on the Sayfo, the mass killing and deportation of Assyrian, Syriac Orthodox and Chaldean Catholic Christians in southeastern Anatolia and Persia's Azerbaijan province by Ottoman forces and allied Kurdish tribes between 1914 and 1924, concentrated in 1915. Covers the Assyro-Chaldean delegation's own contemporary estimate of 250,000 dead (about half the roughly 500,000 to 600,000 pre-war population) presented at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, revised to 275,000 at the 1923 Lausanne Conference; the role of Diyarbekir governor Mehmed Reshid; the genocide's status as less studied than the contemporaneous Armenian genocide; and its recognition history, beginning with 1990s Assyrian diaspora advocacy and including Sweden's 2010 and the Netherlands' 2015 parliamentary resolutions, while the Turkish government rejects the characterization.
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Reliability TierCommunity-edited reference page, tier 3. Its central death-toll figures trace to the Assyro-Chaldean delegation's own contemporary submissions to the Paris and Lausanne peace conferences, and its recognition-history claims are checkable against the named parliaments' own published resolutions. Citation
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayfo 1 Connections
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This source names Assyrians directly: "A community-edited reference article on the Sayfo, the mass killing and deportation of Assyrian, Syriac Orthodox and Chaldean Catholic Christians in southeastern Anatolia and Persia's Azerbaijan..."
Source Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Edition
This source names Azerbaijan directly: "in southeastern Anatolia and Persia's Azerbaijan province by Ottoman forces and allied Kurdish tribes between 1914 and 1924, concentrated in 1915."
Source Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Edition
This source names Netherlands directly: "and including Sweden's 2010 and the Netherlands' 2015 parliamentary resolutions, while the Turkish government rejects the characterization."
Source Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Edition
This source names Turkish directly: "parliamentary resolutions, while the Turkish government rejects the characterization."
Source Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Edition
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1. Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Edition
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This source backs 15 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 2 connected. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Religious Events, 15 claims: 10 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 2 connected, 1 general references.
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