Original sentence: (1914–1923) massacres by the Young Turk government.Approximately 500,000–750,000 Assyrians in the Ottoman Empire were killed.Armenians and most historians believe the deaths constituted genocide.Between 200,000 and 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire died from armed conflict, disease and famine during the turmoil of World War I.Between 300,000 and 600,000 Pontian Greeks in the Ottoman Empire were killed, and several hundred thousand others exiled.See also: Armenian Genocide, Assyrian Genocide and Pontian Greek Genocide.The Turkish government denies allegations of genocide.The Turkish government denies there was any genocide, instead blaming the wars with Greece which took place around the same time.The Turkish government still denies that there was any genocide
Edited sentence: Armenians, once a minority group among others in Ottoman Empire was inflamed by Russia and was fooled by its target to balkanize Ottoman Empire by provoking the minorities to divide the empire into small pieces to destroy easier.As a result, Armenians killed thousands of innocent Turkish and Kurdish people including babies, the old, females in Turkish villages in the northeast part of what is knows as Turkey today.Please see  for further discussion of how this fact was turned the other way over the years by Armenian groups