Assyrian-Kurdish clashes (1900–1910)

Assyrian–Kurdish Clashes (1900–1910)
	Part of Assyrian–Kurdish conflict
Date	1900–1910
Location	Hakkari, Ottoman Empire
Result	Assyrian victory Malik Khoshaba took his revenge;
Belligerents
Assyrian Tribes Tyari tribe; Tkhuma tribe; Other Assyrian Hakkari tribes;	Kurdish tribes Barzani tribe; Surchi tribe; Berwari tribe; Other tribal confederations;
Commanders and leaders
Malik Yosip †; Malik Ismail II; Malik Khoshaba	Rashid Beg; Said Beg †; Various Kurdish tribal leaders
Strength
Multiple tribes	Multiple tribes
Casualties and losses
Large	Large
	In 1900, Malik Yosip of Tyari was assassinated by Rashid Beg, the Kurdish prince of the Barwari region, prompting his son, Malik Khoshaba, to seek vengeance.; In 1907 the Ottomans sent troops to Hakkari to stop fighting between the Assyrians of Tyari and Kurds. The Ottoman troops were successful in subduing the Kurds. The Assyrians of Tyari, however, defeated them and the Ottomans were routed and had their weapons seized.; In 1908, Malik Khoshaba led a retaliatory attack against the Barwari Kurds, resulting in the death of Said Beg, Rashid Beg's brother, and in the same year (before Malik Khoshaba's attack) the Kurdish emir of Barwari expelled over 12,000 Assyrians from the Lizan valley.; The clashes were fueled by Ottoman divide-and-rule policies, tribal rivalries, and territorial disputes.; These confrontations set the stage for further violence during the Assyrian Genocide of 1915.;

The Assyrian-Kurdish Clashes (1900–1910) were a series of clashes between the Assyrians and Kurds of Hakkari that took place before and after Rashid Beg assassinated Malik Khoshaba's father, Malik Yosip, and the retaliation by Malik Khoshaba, which led to the death of Rashid Beg's brother, Said Beg.