Hakkari Expedition 1916 | |||||||
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Part of Persian campaign (World War I) | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Assyrian volunteers | Hakkari Kurdish tribes | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Malik Khoshaba[2] Dawid Mar Shimun[2] Agha Petros[2] Malik Ismail II[2] |
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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