Contemporary sources usually speak of the events in terms of an Assyrian genocide , along with the Armenian genocide , Greek genocide and Great Famine of Mount Lebanon by the Ottoman Empire . For example , the International Association of Genocide Scholars reached a consensus that " the Ottoman campaign against Christian minorities of the Empire between 1914 and 1923 constituted a genocide against Armenians , Assyrians , Pontian and Anatolian Greeks and Maronites . " After this resolution , the Dictionary of Genocide co-authored by eminent genocide scholar Samuel Totten , an expert on Holocaust education and the genocide in Darfur , contained an entry on the " Assyrian genocide . " 18 The President of Genocide Watch , Gregory Stanton , endorsed the " repudiation by the world 's leading genocide scholars of the Turkish government 's ninety year denial of the Ottoman Empire 's genocides against its Christian populations , including Assyrians , Greeks , and Armenians . " The death toll of the Assyrian genocide in Turkey alone was approximately 250,000 , according to contemporary and more recent sources . " In 1918 , according to the Los Angeles Times , Ambassador Morgenthau confirmed that the Ottoman Empire had ' massacred fully 2,000,000 men , women , and children -- Greeks , Assyrians , Armenians ; fully 1,500,000 Armenians . ' " With 250,000 Greeks among the dead , that makes Ambassador Morgenthau 's estimate of Assyrian deaths about 250,000 . The Assyro-Chaldean National Council stated in a December 4 , 1922 memorandum that the total death toll is unknown , but it estimates that about 275,000 Assyrians died between 1914 – 1918
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