What the records say
- When
- 1895
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 25,000
- Coordinates
- 37.91° N, 40.24° E
- Description
- mass killings of Armenians and Assyrians in the Ottoman Empire
Massacres of Diyarbekir (1895)
Mass killings of Armenians and Assyrians in the Ottoman Empire
The massacres of Diyarbakır were massacres that took place in the Diyarbekir Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire between the years of 1894 and 1896 by Muslims, a majority of whom were ethnic Kurds. The events were part of the Hamidian massacres and targeted the vilayet's Christian population – mostly Armenians and Assyrians.
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