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More than two-thirds of the Muslim population of Yerevan province, had either been killed or forced to flee

29.11.2024

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During the world war, Russian military power kept any recurrence of the 1905 troubles between Armenians and Azeri Turks from breaking out. However, strife arose once again during the Russian Revolution when Russian power disappeared. The population of the largest city of Azerbaijan, Baku, was made up primarily of Turks, Armenians, and Russians. Because of the highly developed oil industry in Western Transcaucasia, Baku was an industrialized city and had a large class of industrial workers. The effects of the Russian Revolution thus were seen in Baku more than in the rest of the Transcaucasian region. The city was ruled by a revolutionary government (the so-called Baku Commune) in which most power was held by the Dashnak Party and the Bolsheviks.

The Armenians and Bolsheviks felt that the Turks, represented by a Muslim political party, were loyal to their co-religionists in the Ottoman Empire rather than to the revolution. Street fighting broke out between the Armenians and Turks, fed by hatred between the two. Because the Bolsheviks aided the Armenians, the Turks were easily routed and a massacre of Turks began (March 30 to April 1, 1918). Between 8,000 and 12,000 Muslims were killed in the city alone and half the city’s Turks were forced to flee. As the Ottoman Army advanced into the Western Caucasus, the Armenian Revolutionary forces in Baku fled and the Turks took their revenge. Almost 9,000 Armenians were killed on the night of September 14-15. The Ottomans entered the city on September 16 and restored order.

In the rest of Azerbaijan the Azeri Turks were initially at a great disadvantage. Comparatively much more well-armed, Armenian military forces were able to attack unarmed Turkish villages. Their intent was to cause the Turks to flee so that the Armenian State would have larger, more secure borders, and they were initially successful. American intelligence sources estimated that 60,000 Turks were forced to flee and that 420 Muslim villages had been destroyed by the Armenian forces.

In Yerevan Province, the Armenian government applied by then traditional tactics in clearing the Armenian Republic of Turks. Massacres and destroyed villages were an incentive to flight for the Turks. By the end of the conflict, 180,000 Muslims, more than two-thirds of the Muslim population of Yerevan province, had either been killed or forced to flee.

By 1920, the Turks of Azerbaijan had developed their power and were able to resist, aided by the resurgent Turkish Nationalists in Northeastern Anatolia. They held the Armenians to approximately the old borders of the Yerevan Province. As in Anatolia, Kars, and Baku, Armenian civilians now were forced to flee. They crossed from Azerbaijan into the Armenian Republic, effectively taking the place of the Turks of Yerevan. Conflict between the Azeri Turks and the Armenians was, in the end, stopped by the Soviet Conquest of Transcaucasia, only to break out once again in the 1980s.

From the book of Justin McCarthy, Carolyn McCarthy. “Turkrks and armenians” – A Manual on the Armenian Question.

 

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1. Tiflis Tatars (Azerbaijanis) were left to face alone the disaster in the cold winter of 1905 2. Massacres in Erivan Province (1918-1920) (I) 3. The massacres of 1905-1906 4. Massacres in Erivan Province (1918-1920) (II) 5. Damien de Martel: “4,000 persons were put to death, including women and children, drowned by Armenian soldiers in the Arax River” 6. Agdaban Tragedy

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Inauguration ceremony of President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev was held

Ilham Aliyev wins presidential election with 92.05 percent of votes VIDEO

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Anar Iskandarov

“Armenians created their  image of a miserable nation, but the world defended them”

Nazim Mustafa

“Both during the genocide in 1918 and I Garabakh War Armenians attacked from the same directions.”

Khojaly – almost 25 years have passed… Boran Aziz

“In general, one of the untouched topics is Khojavand.”

Ilgar Niftaliyev

Neither Azerbaijan nor Armenia agreed to grant Nagorno-Karabakh an autonomous status

Guntekin Najafli

“If Russia could eliminate the Ottoman Empire, there never would be any Armenian state in history”

Musa Gasimli

“A quarter of the Azerbaijani population was massacred in Baku in 1918”

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Dayanat Musayev

Historical roots of genocide against Azerbaijanis committed by Armenians

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Armenia wants the occupation of the Azerbaijani territories to be forgotten with “genocide” claims

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The Manifesto dated 15th July 1722 of the Peter I for province population on the Caspian coast

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On February 23, 1918, the supreme governing body of the South Caucasus -the Transcaucasian Seim was created.

 

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Karabakh Mugham School

According to a UNESCO decision, the Mugham of Azerbaijan has been proclaimed a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. In Azerbaijan proper, where the Mugham is perceived as an integral part of a system of fundamental cultural values of the Azerbaijani people, this decision is viewed both as a recognition of the merits by outstanding representatives of the genre and as a desire to attract the attention of the world’s cultural community to this unique heritage.

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The damage caused by Armenian aggressors to Lachin District

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RETROSPECTİVE – Arsen Malik-Shahnazarov`s word game facts

The book titled “Nagorno Karabakh: facts versus lies” (Нагорный Карабах: факты против лжи) by Arsen Malik-Shahnazarov, advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the so-called Nagorno Karabakh Republic since 1993, was printed in 3,000 copies by Volshebniy Fonar publishing house (Moscow).

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