The Kurdish forces played a big role in taking Diyarbakır and other parts of Eastern Anatolia from the Safavids.

Kurdish notables from Bradost, Akre and Amedi later complained to Reşid Mehmed Pasha of the Ottoman government that they were being oppressed by Mir Kor.

The increasing persecution of Christians led to European Powers pressuring the Ottomans to stop Bedir Khan Beg.

[15] After the defeat of Bedir Khan Beg, the majority of Ottoman Kurdish lands were under control of the central government.

Sheikh Ubeydullah sent a small number of his soldiers to help the Ottoman Army in the 1877-1878 Ottoman-Russian War.

In summer 1879, rumours spread that Sheikh Ubeydullah had promised some Kurdish tribal chiefs that he would "sweep all the Christians from the land".

[17] In a letter to Sultan Abdülhamid II, Sheikh Ubeydullah declared that the Muslims would not allow the formation of an "Armenian state" and said that the power of the Caliph had been severely worsened by the Tanizmat.

[1] The aftermath of the war with Russians took a massive toll on the Ottoman Empire, specifically the Eastern regions, where the Kurds, as well as some Turkmens lived.

Sheikh Ubeydullah eventually revolted and fought against the Russian Empire, Ottomans, and Qajar Iran at the same time.

He lost to the Ottomans and was taken to Istanbul but later fled back to his hometown of Şemdinli to organize another revolt but was once again captured and was exiled to Hejaz, where he lived until his death.

[24] Around 1908, Turkish nationalism, which was secular,[25] made its way to the Ottoman Empire and challenged the Pan-Islamist policies of Abdulhamid II.

Abdulhamid II was the last Ottoman Sultan to rule with absolute power, and his reign ended on 27 April 1909.

[30] In February 1915, Simko Shikak organized a massacre of Armenians and Assyrians in Haftevan, which the Ottoman Army helped him with.

Talaat Pasha, referring to the deportations, stated: "to preclude that the Kurdish refugees continue their tribal life and their nationality wherever they have been deported, the chieftains need to be separated from the common people by all means, and all influential personalities and leaders need to be sent separately to the provinces of Konya and Kastamonu, and to the districts of Niğde and Kayseri.

The sick, the elderly, lonely and poor women and children who are unable to travel will be settled and supported in Maden town and Ergani and Behremaz counties, to be dispersed in Turkish villages and among Turks.