The community has a history in France dating back to the First World War , with most arriving during the 1920s in Marseille as a result of the Assyrian genocide . The bulk of the Assyrian presence dates back to the early 20th century , when some Assyrians , fleeing the Assyrian genocide , found refuge in France . Others arrived from rural south-eastern Turkey as a result of the Kurdish – Turkish conflict in the 1960s and 70s . Their numbers swelled after the Iraq War in 2003 by those arriving from Iraqi cities
Assyrian genocide
Assyrian genocide
Assyrians in France