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{{Short description|Mass killings of Armenians and Assyrians in the Ottoman Empire}}
{{Infobox civilian attack
| title = Massacres of Diyarbakır (1895)
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| location = [[Diyarbekir Vilayet]], [[Ottoman Empire]] | date = {{start date|1895}}
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| type = [[Mass murder]]
| fatalities = 25,000<ref name=Angold512>{{Harvnb|Angold|2006|pp=512}}</ref>
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| perps = [[Kurdish people|Kurdish]] irregulars, Ottoman governors
| motive = Anti-Assyrian and Anti-Armenian agitation
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'''Massacres of Diyarbakır''' were [[massacre]]s that took place in the [[Diyarbekir Vilayet]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]] between the years of 1894 and 1896 by ethnic Kurds and Turks. The events were part of the [[Hamidian massacres]] and targeted the vilayet's [[Christians|Christian]] population – [[Armenians]] and mostly [[Assyrian people|Assyrians]].
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