Later Years
Petros was the head negotiator for the Assyrians between 1919 and 1923. On July 24, 1923, he took part in the League of Nations Peace Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he approached the Turkish delegation for the resettlement of the Assyrians in and around Hakkâri Province in exchange for the loyalty of the Assyrians. The then secretary/minister of foreign affairs of Turkey, İsmet İnönü who was heading the Turkish delegation at Lausanne was in favor of the resettlement but a telegram received from the central government in Ankara destroyed the hopes of those Assyrian people that had lived in south eastern Anatolia for four thousand years of ever returning.
During his last years Petros moved near Toulouse, France where he lived until his death of a cerebral attack at the railway station, on February 2, 1932.
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