Treated Differently
Like most of the Christians in the Ottoman empire Assyrians were treated as though they were below the Turks. They could not hold positions of power and were attacked and killed fairly often in massacres. Many were also deported and were forced to convert to Islam. 25,000 Assyrians were killed in Diyarbakir during the 1895-96 Hamidian Massacres. The Ottoman sultan allowed for these massacres to occur.