Anti-Assyrian sentiment

Anti-Assyrian sentiment, also known as anti-Assyrianism and Assyrophobia, refers to negative feelings, dislikes, fears, aversions, racism, derision, and/or prejudice towards Assyria, Assyrian culture, Syriac Christianity, and Assyrians, as well as Chaldeans, Syriacs, and Arameans.

Anti-Assyrian sentiment largely manifested itself during the time of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, reaching its peak with the Assyrian genocide (Sayfo), and has continued throughout the 20th and 21st centuries in varying forms across Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey, that is, all the countries that were established on the territory of the destroyed indigenous Assyrian homeland of Assyria. The most notorious and destructive examples of violence towards Assyrians include the Simele massacre, the Anfal campaign, forced assimilation campaigns (Arabization, Kurdification, Turkification), and systematic persecution by the Islamic State terrorists. Similar to Anti-Armenian sentiment, Anti-Assyrian sentiment has historically also been fueled by an Anti-Christian sentiment.

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