 The Assyrian Genocide was the massacre of the Assyrian population in the Ottoman Empire, which were in the regions of southeastern Turkey and the Urmia region of Iran, were deported and massacred by Ottoman and Kurdish armies in 1914 and 1920.Sources have put the death tolls at around 300,000.The Ottoman Empire under the Young Turks, followed by Mustafa Kemal and his Nationalists, committed genocide against their Greek citizens from 1914–1922, killing approximately 750,000 Greeks, 353,000 of whom were Pontic Greeks from the Black Sea area.