11 Facts About Sayfo

Sayfo occurred concurrently with and was closely related to the Armenian genocide, although the Sayfo is considered to have been less systematic.

Sayfo'sfik promised protection and money in exchange for a written promise that the Assyrians would not side with Russia or permit their tribes to take up arms against the Ottoman government.

Sayfo met with General Fyodor Chernozubov in Moyanjik, who promised support.

Sayfo left Siirt as quickly as he could, passing deportation columns of Syriac and Armenian women and children.

Three Assyrian villages in Siirt—Dentas, Piroze and Hertevin—survived the Sayfo, existing until 1968 when their residents emigrated.

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Sayfo's forces killed men, and the women and girls were enslaved by Turks and Kurds.

Sayfo was replaced by the equally-resistant Shefik, whom Reshid tried to depose.

The Sayfo was less systematic than the Armenian genocide; all Christians were killed in some places, but local officials spared Assyrians and targeted Armenians in others.

The Sayfo is recognized as a genocide in resolutions passed by Sweden, Armenia (2015), the Netherlands (2015), and Germany (in 2016).

Turkish government denies that the Sayfo was a genocide; unlike its denial of the Armenian genocide, however, it prefers to avoid the issue.

Wolvaardt wrote that bringing up the Sayfo was "viewed as a form of hate directed against Turks", some of whom had considered leaving the Sydney suburb of Fairfield after a Sayfo memorial was built there.