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 .

After the end Process_end of the War the Ottoman Empire offered Giving to harbour the Circassians who did not wish to accept Response the rule of a Christian monarch , and many emigrated Escaping to Anatolia , the heart of the Ottoman territory and ended up Process_end in modern Turkey , Syria , Jordan , Palestine , Israel , Iraq and Kosovo .

Early relations between Russia and Circassians .

Circassia ( Cherkessia in Russian ) refers Adducing to a region the majority of whose inhabitants before the 1860s were the Adygey ( Adyghey , Adyghe ) ethnic group , known Know to the West as Circassians .

The Circassians were never politically united Cause_to_amalgamate for a long period .

In this period of history , the Circassians were Christians ; Islam did not begin Process_start to penetrate Circassia until the following century .

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

The Caucasian War ( ; `` Kavkazskaya vojna '' ) of 1817–1864 was an invasion Attack of the Caucasus by the Russian Empire which resulted in Causation Russia 's annexation of the areas of the North Caucasus , and the ethnic cleansing of Circassians .