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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 [[Turkish people|Turks]]. The events were part of the [[Hamidian massacres]] and targeted the vilayet's [[Christianity|Christian]] population – mostly [[Armenians]] and
The massacres were initially directed at [[Armenians]], instigated by [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] politicians and clerics under the pretext of their desire to dismantle the state, but they soon changed into a general anti-Christian [[pogrom]] as the killing moved to the Diyarbekir Vilayet and surrounding areas of [[Tur Abdin]], which were inhabited by ethnic [[Assyrian Christians]]. Contemporary accounts put the total number of [[Assyrian people|Assyrians]] killed between 1894 and 1896 at around 25,000.<ref name=Angold512/>
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