Hakkari Expedition 1916

Hakkari Expedition 1916
	Part of Persian campaign (World War I)
Date	21 May 1916 – 29 June 1916
Location	Hakkari, Ottoman Empire
Result	Assyrian victory Various Kurdish fortresses destroyed;
Belligerents
Assyrian volunteers	Ottoman Empire Hakkari Kurdish tribes
Commanders and leaders
Malik Khoshaba; Dawid Mar Shimun; Agha Petros; Malik Ismail II	Ottoman Sultans; Kurdish Aghas

The Hakkari Expedition of 1916 (21 May–29 June 1916) was a number of raids conducted by the Assyrian volunteers against local Hakkari Kurdish tribesmen who the year prior, with the help of the Ottomans expelled the Assyrians from Hakkari and resulted in them settling in Russian controlled Urmia and its surroundings.

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