Haftevan[3] (Persian: هفتوان)[a] is a village in Zulachay Rural District of the Central District of Salmas County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.
In early 1915, the village was occupied by the Ottoman Army, whose commander required local Christians to register for food rations.
Kurdish tribesmen under the command of Simko Shikak also took part in this massacre.
Russian Army commander K. Matikyan reported seeing "with my own eyes hundreds of mangled corpses in pits, stinking from infection, lying in the open.
According to historian David Gaunt, "This was where the Ottoman soldiers learned to execute unarmed noncombatant Christians", leading to the Armenian genocide and Assyrian genocide.