Social Positioning and Every Day Life in Qajar Persia

However, with the advent of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent withdrawal of most of the Russian troops, the Ottomans gained the clear upper hand in homeland, and annexed large parts of it for some time. Between 1914-1918, the Ottoman troops massacred many thousands of homeland’s Assyrian and Armenian population, as part of the Assyrian and Armenian Genocides, respectively.