Assyrian Diaspora
The Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac diaspora refers to the estimated population of Assyrians (also known as Chaldeans and Syriacs) in the world that migrated outside of the Middle East or their original homeland in the case of Assyrians. The worldwide diaspora of Syriac Christian communities begins during World War I, with the mass-killings of Christian minorities by the Young Turks government. The emigration of Christians out of the Middle East accelerated further beginning in the 1980s, with mainly Neo Aramaic speaking ethnic Assyrians fleeing persecution in the Islamic Republic of Iran and in Ba'athist Iraq, and again in the wake of the Iraq War during the 2000s.
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“The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold:”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)