Ghala d' Gharna Song by Dr. Fraidon Atouraya

In this video you would find a rare picture of the Assyrian Martyr, Dr. Fraidon Atouraya. Left to right (sitting) Ziga Levkoev and Fraidon Atouraya are Assyrians of Petrograd city from Samavat village (Hakkary), beginning of 1920s. Also in this picture you see the Russian Polkovnik Kondratiev (sitting right), he was friend of Assyrians when Mar Benyamin Shimun was alive. Ziga Levkoev was Huznaya from Hoze village. He was killed by Communists in 1918 as well as his friend Dr. Fraidon Atouraya.

History:

Dr. Freydun Bet-Oraham Atturaya (Freydun the Assyrian) (1891 1926).

An Assyrian physician born in the town of Charbash in the district of Urmia in Iran. He was sent by his father to live with an uncle in Tbilisi, then in the Russian Empire, and studied medicine there. He worked as a medical doctor for the Russian Army as soon as he graduated in 1915. He was later transferred to the Russian Forces in Iran as a medical and political officer, and established an Assyrian National Committee in Urmia, sending 250 young Assyrian men to Russia for military training.

After the February 1917 Russian revolution, Dr. Freydun Atturaya, Rabbi Benjamin Bet Arsanis and Dr. Baba Bet Parhad founded the first Assyrian political party, "The Assyrian Socialist Party". Dr. Atturaya completed in April 1917 an Urmia Manifesto of the United Free Assyria in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, stating in it that "the goal of the free Assyrian unity is to establish in the future the national self-governing in the regions like Urmia, Mosul, Turabdin, Nisibin, Jezira, Julamaerk along with the reunification with the great free Russia in terms of economic and military agreements".

After 1918, the Assyrian National Council which he ran moved to Tbilisi and he was ousted, then imprisoned, under suspicion of being a British spy. After a failed attempt in 1921 to convince the Soviet Foreign minister to repatriate Assyrians to Urmia and Salamis, he married in 1922, and subsequently had two children. He was imprisoned again in 1924 under the accusation of being "a fanatic Assyrian nationalist". He died in prison in 1926, probably poisoned or hanged.

Alongside his military and political career, he wrote poems and founded an Assyrian magazine. The physician and the public figure Dr.Fraidoon Atturaya will live in the memory of the nation as a brilliant poet and playwright likewise. In his poetry Dr.F.Atturaya is beautifully lyrical and yet he is a faithful son of his country.

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[Assyria4eva]

He took 250 men with him to Russia to train for a war, try today to organize a car load of Assyrian men to go out to the casino and you would find this is a mammoth task. This is why i have so much respect for Sahdah Freydon.

[TheAshor]

khaya atour

[NewBornAssyria]

The three dislikes are either ignorant Assyrians whom need to be educated or Assyrian enemies whom don't need to put comments.

[Batnaya111]

ana atouraya broona d atour yemma

ana atouraya broona d atour yemma

beshmayewin qala d qarna, ana atouraya, ana atouraya

catholic assyrian from nineveh plains - Batnaya village- love my nation ❤❤❤

[Blueninos]

Rest in peace sahda freydon

[furat1234]

god bless and Jesus protect all Assyrian people around the world and everywhere and good on this person who upload this song. PROUD TO BE ASSYRIAN, and Turkish go to hell. times never go back so we can show now now who is going to Slaughter each other.

[ramsen123456789]

Leon Sando was the first Assyrian to record this song in the 1970s in Sydney

[NewBornAssyria]

"Urmia Manifesto of the United Free Assyria " shall never die.

Sleep calm dear Freydun

Your children are live

[Ashurubalit]

Khaye ator khaye umtan atoraya, ana atoraya ana brone d dr. atoraya

[InannaVenus]

Very nice, I hope the youth of our Nationb hear your distant yet near voice.