Assyrian Genocide

Assyrian genocide
Part of the persecution of Assyrians
A report published in the Washington Times on March 26, 1915.
Location	Ottoman Empire Persia (due to Ottoman troops crossing the border)
Date	1914–1920
Target	Assyrian civilians
Attack type	Deportation, mass murder, etc.
Deaths	150,000–300,000 (see death toll section below)
Perpetrators	Young Turk government, Kurdish tribes

Early history
This article is part of the series on the History of the Assyrian people

Old Assyrian Empire (20th–15th c. BCE) Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–612 BCE) Achaemenid Assyria (539–330 BCE)
Classical Antiquity
Seleucid Empire (312–63 BCE) Parthian Empire (247 BCE – 224 CE) Osroene (132 BCE – 244 CE) Syrian Wars (66 BCE – 217 CE) Roman Syria (64 BCE – 637 CE) Adiabene (15–116) Roman Assyria (116–118) Christianization (1st to 3rd c.) Nestorian Schism (5th c.) Asōristān (226–651) Byzantine–Sasanian wars (502–628)
Middle Ages
Muslim conquest of Persia (630s-640s) Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258) Emirs of Mosul (905–1383) Buyid amirate (945–1055) Principality of Antioch (1098–1268) Ilkhanate (1258–1335) Jalairid Sultanate (1335–1432) Kara Koyunlu (1375–1468) Ağ Qoyunlu (1453–1501)
Modern History
Safavid dynasty (1508-1555) Ottoman Empire (1555–1917) Schism of 1552 (16th c.) Massacres of Badr Khan (1840s) Massacres of Diyarbakir (1895) Rise of nationalism (19th c.) Adana massacre (1909) Assyrian genocide (1914–1920) Assyrian independence movement (since 1919) Simele massacre (1933) Post-Saddam Iraq (since 2003)
See also
Assyrian continuity Assyrian–Chaldean–Syriac diaspora

Seleucid Empire (312–63 BCE)
Parthian Empire (247 BCE – 224 CE)
Osroene (132 BCE – 244 CE)
Syrian Wars (66 BCE – 217 CE)
Roman Syria (64 BCE – 637 CE)
Adiabene (15–116)
Roman Assyria (116–118)
Christianization (1st to 3rd c.)
Nestorian Schism (5th c.)
Asōristān (226–651)
Byzantine–Sasanian wars (502–628)