Scotland Liddle, an English military journalist, who visited South Caucasus, namely Karabakh and Zengazur in 1919 wrote: “The Armenians are miserable for they have Dashnaktsutyun in power.” This terrorist revolutionary organization has long been provoking the Armenians against the Muslims. After receiving a hard blow by the Muslims, the Armenians then try to earn international sympathy towards the “oppressed Armenians”… And they gain that undeserved sympathy thanks to skillful, systematic agitation .”

The state-territorial delimitation of the South Caucasus in 1918 violated the socio-economic lifestyle of the population, which had developed over the centuries, thus causing acute border conflicts between the national states that emerged here.

In June of 1923 the “Trans-Caucasian District Committee” of Soviet empire demanded from Azerbaijan’s government to solve the issue of autonomy.

Up to the Russian occupations at the beginning of the 19th century the overwhelming majority of the population of the Iravan Khanate were Azerbaijani-Turks.