The Ottoman Empire 's treatment of its Christian subjects varied during its history . During the golden age of the empire , the millet system promised its Christian subjects better treatment than non-Christian populations experienced in Christian Europe , while during the decline and fall of the empire , the Christian minorities suffered a number of atrocities . Notable cases of persecution include the Batak massacre , the Hamidian massacres , the Adana massacre , the ethnic cleansing of Thracian Bulgarians in 1913 and the Armenian Genocide , Greek Genocide and Assyrian Genocide , all of which occurred during the last few decades of the empire under the influence of Pan-Turkism
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Christianity in the Ottoman Empire