The Massacres of Bader Khan were a series of massacres carried out by the Kurdish Emirs of Bohtan and Hakkari, Badr Khan and Nurallah, against the Assyrians of Hakkari and Tiyari in the 1840s. The massacres resulted in the killing of more than 10,000 Assyrians and the captivity of thousands of others. It also led to the Ottoman intervention, under Western pressure, to overthrow the last semi-independent Kurdish Emirates in 1847.