1917, Diplomacy with new Russia

 

 

• The Ottoman considered maintaining the relationship with the Washington.

• The 1917 Russian revolution not only causes the soldiers but also Russian economy.

• This actual question was left to Soviet historians: “whether a less aggressive policy toward the Ottoman Empire before the war would have caused Istanbul to maintain neutrality or whether Russia later might have induced Istanbul to leave the war, the outcome of tsarist future would be different.”

• Nicholas's unproficient handling of his country and the war destroyed the tsar, ended up losing his reign and life.

• Enver immediately instructed the Vehib Pasha, Third Army, to suggest a plan to stop a war with the Russian.

• Neither Russia's Caucasus Army nor Caucasian civil give promise that a peace agreement would hold.

• On 7 November 1917 the Bolshevik Party led by Vladimir Lenin overthrew the Provisional Government, causing a war between ethnic groups.

• Russian was a long time threat, but at the same time kept civil unrest at bay without affecting Ottoman empire.

• Enver informed the Quadruple Alliance that they would like to see the 1877 border, pointing out that the only Ottomans lost territory was Ottoman territories inhabited by Muslims.

• Ottomans wanted Muslim Iran be under its own control.

• On 22 December 1917, the first meeting between Ottomans and the Bolsheviks, the head Zaki Pasha requested an end to a crime committed by Armenian Partisans.

• The Ottomans brought people together for the Caucasus Committee to make claims for the Muslims.

• Caucasus Committee had declined Ottoman requests to break from Russia and embrace independence.

• The Caucasian Christians was far ahead in this new world concept. Helping the Caucasian Muslims to be free, like their neighbors, would be the Ottomans’ challenge.