The Assyrians suffered a number of religiously and ethnically motivated massacres throughout the 17th , 18th and 19th centuries AD , culminating in the large scale Hamidian massacres of unarmed men , women and children by Muslim Turks and Kurds in the late 19th century at the hands of the Ottoman Empire and its associated ( largely Kurdish and Arab ) militias , which further greatly reduced numbers , particularly in southeastern Turkey
Hamidian massacres
Hamidian massacres
Assyrian people