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= Battle of Suldouze =

The Battle of Suldouze was a military engagement between the Ottoman Empire and the Assyrian Volunteers led by Agha Petros in the town of Suldouze.

Background
Prior to World War 1, the Assyrian tribes of the Hakkari mountains enjoyed complete and semi-independence, each tribe was led by a Malik (ܡܠܟ) who also functioned as a military leader during wartime. The independent Assyrian mountaineers were referred to as Asiratte or Asherat. The country of the independent Assyrian tribes of Tkhuma, Baz, Jilu, Tyari and Diz occupied the upper valley of the Zab River. This country was known as Hakkari. The village of Mellawa marked the border beween the independent and semi-independent tribes. In reaction to the Assyrian Genocide and lured by British and Russian promises of an independent nation, as the Assyrians armed themselves and put up resistance Talaat Pasha sent the order to permanently drive them from the Hakkari mountains. After arriving in the Iranian Azerbaijan then controlled by Russia they where professionally trained and well equiped to fight alongside the Russian Cossacks that where also stationed there. After the Russian withdrawal from Iranian Azerbaijan due to the Russian Civil War and the collapse of Armenian armed resistance the Assyrians found themselves outnumbered and surrounded by hostile peoples bent on eradicating them. After the Russian withdrawal the British officials ceased the opportunity and began to cooperate more with Agha Petros and the remaining Assyrian army.

Battle
Not much is known about the battle details but Agha Petros managed to defeat the combined Ottoman and Kurdish force as while inflicting heavy casualties.