Ottoman ( Turkish ) army forcibly relocated the Assyrian/Syriac civilian population during the Assyrian Genocide .
.The Assyrian/Syriac civilian population of upper Mesopotamia ( the Tur Abdin region , the Hakkâri , Van , and Siirt provinces of present-day southeastern Turkey , and the Urmia region of northwestern Iran ) was forcibly relocated and massacred by the Ottoman army , together with other armed and allied Muslim peoples , including Kurds , Chechens and Circassians , between 1914 and 1920 , with further attacks on unarmed fleeing civilians conducted by local Arab militias .
Assyrian genocide