Over 1,200,000 Armenians, 250,000 Assyrians, and 600,000 Greeks of Asia Minor were exterminated by the Ottoman regime.

Omissions

• The claim does not specify the time period (1914-1923), which is essential context for understanding these historical events.
• The Armenian death toll of 'over 1,200,000' is conservative: the most widely cited scholarly figure is approximately 1.5 million.
• Exact death tolls for all three groups remain subject to scholarly debate due to incomplete Ottoman records and methodological differences among historians. The figures represent estimates, not precise enumerations.
• The Assyrian (Sayfo) genocide also affected Syriac Orthodox and Chaldean Christians alongside Assyrians; the 250,000 figure represents the lower end of estimates that range up to 300,000.
• The Greek genocide death toll is the most contested of the three, with estimates varying from approximately 300,000 to over 900,000 depending on methodology and geographic scope.

Sources

• SecondaryUnited States Holocaust Memorial MuseumAbout 1.5 million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire in 1915. During the genocide, approximately 1.5 million Armenians were killed through mass shootings, death marches, and starvation.
• SecondaryThe New York TimesOn the eve of World War I, there were two million Armenians in the declining Ottoman Empire. By 1922, there were fewer than 400,000. The others — some 1.5 million — had been killed or died of starvation.
• SecondarySeyfo Center (Assyrian Genocide Research Center)Somewhere between 250,000 to 300,000 Assyrians, about half of the population, were killed or died from starvation or disease in a series of massacres and death marches.