After these splits , the Assyrians suffered a number of religiously and ethnically motivated massacres throughout the 17th , 18th and 19th centuries , such as the Massacres of Badr Khan which resulted in the massacre of over 10,000 Assyrians in the 1840s , culminating in the large scale Hamidian massacres of unarmed men , women and children by Turks and Kurds in the 1890s at the hands of the Ottoman Empire and its associated ( largely Kurdish and Arab ) militias , which greatly reduced their numbers , particularly in southeastern Turkey where over 25,000 Assyrians were murdered . The Adana massacre of 1909 largely aimed at Armenian Christians also accounted for the murder of some 1,500 Assyrians
Hamidian massacres
Hamidian massacres
Assyria