The Young Turk government launched a series of initiatives that included forced assimilation . Ümit Üngör writes that " Muslim Kurds and Sephardi Jews were considered slightly more ' Turkifiable ' than others " , noting that many of these nationalist era " social engineering " policies perpetuated persecution " with little regard for proclaimed and real loyalties . " These policies culminated in Armenian and Assyrian genocides
Armenian
Armenian Genocide
Turkification