Caucasian Suez Canal Armenian Greek Assyrian Armenian genocide Greek genocide Sayfo genocide Ottoman Empire Ottomans Russia Europe Britain
The Ottomans threatened Russia's Caucasian territories and Britain's communications with India via the Suez Canal. As the conflict progressed, the Ottoman Empire took advantage of the European powers' preoccupation with the war and conducted large-scale ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian Christian populations, known as the Armenian genocide, Greek genocide, and Sayfo respectively.
