Scores of Chechens were taken Conquering prisoner Prison by the Russians , and only a few survived Preserving .

Three months later the exiled leader of the separatist government , Akhmed Zakayev , called Name_conferral for a halt to armed resistance against the Chechen police force starting on 1 August and said Telling he hoped that `` starting with this day Chechens will never shoot at each other '' .

The Assyrian civilian population of upper Mesopotamia ( the Tur Abdin region , the Hakkâri , Van , and Siirt provinces of present-day southeastern Turkey , and the Urmia region of northwestern Iran ) was forcibly relocated Departing and massacred Killing by the Ottoman army , together with other armed and allied Collaboration Muslim peoples , including Kurds , Chechens and Circassians , between 1914 and 1920 , with further attacks Attack on unarmed Bearing_arms fleeing Escaping civilians conducted Action by local Arab militias .

The Moscow theater hostage crisis ( also known as the 2002 Nord-Ost siege ) was the seizure of a crowded Dubrovka Theater by 40 to 50 armed Chechens on 23 October 2002 that involved Cause_to_be_included 850 hostages and ended Process_end with the death Death of at least 170 people .

The Turkish Ottomans had the support Supporting of Kurds ( until 1915 ) , Turcomans , Circassians , Chechens and a number of Iranian , Arab and Berber groups .