[5] Chikko commanded the Assyrian front against the Iraqi Ba’thist Regime in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
[1][2][3][6] Chikko was killed in the Battle of Aloka on December 2, 1963, at the age of 29, along with six other Assyrian fighters.
[8] Kore Gavana, along with many other Assyrian-majority villages in Iraq's Dohuk Governorate, were eventually annexed by the Kurdistan Regional Government.
[1][2] He and his family are mentioned in the Assyrian songs Chikko by Sargon Gabriel[10][11][12] and Korehgawana by Juliana Jendo.
[13][14] There was controversy among the international Assyrian community during the 2017 Kurdistan Region independence referendum, when an image of Chikko's statue in the village of Kore Gavana covered with Kurdish flags was surfaced.