- Agha Petros
Agha Petros Elia of Baz (Syriac: ܐܓܐ ܦܜܪܘܣ;
1 April ,1880 –2 February ,1932 ) was a militarygeneral duringWorld War I . An ethnic Assyrian,cite web
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quote=The fact remains that throughout the last seven years and the last 150 years for that matter the name Assyrian has always been attached to our political ambitions in the Middle East. Any time, any one of us from any of our church and tribal groups targets a political goal we present our case as Assyrians, Chaldean-Assyrians, or Syriac-Assyrians – making a connection to our “Assyrian” heritage. This is because our politics have always been Assyrian. Men like Naom Faiq and David Perley emerging from a “Syriac” or “Jacobite” background understood this as well as our Chaldean heroes, General Agha Petros d’Baz and the late Chaldean Patriarch Mar Raphael Bidawid. ] Petros was born in the LowerBaz village,Ottoman Empire , where he received his elementary education before attending aEurope an missionary school in theIran ian city ofUrmia . He later lived for three years in theUnited States .Petros was fluent with a number of languages, including Assyrian, Turkish, Arabic, French, Persian, English, and Russian, a skill which led to his employment by the Turkish
Consulate in Urmia as a secretary. He became TurkishConsul there in 1908, but after beingexile d by British authorities relocated toToulouse ,France . InOctober 26 ,1923 , he took part in theLeague of Nations Peace Conference.dubious He died in France, a victim ofpoison ing.Military history
Agha Petros defeated the Turks in Sauj Bulak and drove them back to
Rowanduz .Fact|date=October 2007 Agha Petros had no real control overAssyrians orArmenians , and was indeed greatly mistrusted by many of them. There was deep disunion in the ranks, instead of posting a force to contain the Turks who he had defeatedFact|date=October 2007 he moved his forces to Sain Kala which reached seven days after the British detachment retired. [The Tragedy of the Assyrians By R. S. Stafford]References
* [http://www.betnahrain.net/Biographies/agha.htm Bet Nahrain]
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