High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Urmia Manifesto of the United Free Assyria was written by Assyrian nationalist Freydun Atturaya, in his struggle for Assyrian independence during and after World War I. It was written in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic and completed in April 1917. Its ideology was Marxism, and it supported self regional independence for the Assyrian people in the Middle East.One of the goals of the Manifesto was to form a trade and military alliance with Russia.The Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac people (frequently known as Assyrians in English, besides Syrians, Syriacs, Syrian Christians, Syriac Christians, Suroye/Suryoye and other variants, see names of Syriac Christians) are an ethnic group whose origins lie in the Fertile Crescent, their homeland today being divided between Northern Iraq, Syria, Western Iran, and Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia.