As a result of the Armenian Genocide during the First World War , Armenian convoys fled to Iraq and Syria seeking security . One group of Armneians from the village of Dehe ( a village in Turkey ) founded this settlement . The Dehi in Turkey had 700 Armenian families before the genocide . They were massacred by the Ottoman and Kurdish troops during World War I. Only 40 families escaped and fled to Iraq to settle down in Zakho , and then came here to found this village . By the 1970s , the village was built again and there were about 180 Armenian families in the village of Dehi . However , Today there are no Armenians in Dehi , with them moving to Europe . Most of them are now in the Netherlands in the region of Almelo . The entire population of the village is now Assyrian
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Dehi, Iraq