In 1923 , the mandate of the Commission was expanded to include the more than one million Armenians who left Turkish Asia Minor in 1915 and 1923 due to a series of events now known as the Armenian Genocide . Over the next several years , the mandate was expanded further to cover Assyrians and Turkish refugees . In all of these cases , a refugee was defined as a person in a group for which the League of Nations had approved a mandate , as opposed to a person to whom a general definition applied
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Refugee