ABOUT THE OPERATION OF TURKISH ISLAMIC ARMY IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS (DAGESTAN) (Under the Luminary of Archive Documents - 1917-1919)

Abstract

The majority of the people who lives in The North Caucasus are the Muslim Turks intrinsically. In that time especially today's Dagestan Autonomous Republic was the piece of land of Azerbaijan. Turks who were living in the North Caucasus formed a front against to Russian imperialism and persecution of Armenians subsequently. At the same time appeared new events during the First World War, with the operation of the Turkish Islamic Army in the Caucasus. Within this events in the North Caucasus, intensified efforts of Dagestan Turks to form independent national state. Because all of these developments, all Muslim Turkish tribes in the North Caucasus were trying to act from the Russians independently relying on Turks of Dagestan. The North Caucasian Republic when founded in 11 May 1918, legitimatized by the Ottoman Empire too. Because of this legitimatizing annoyed the Bolshevik Russians, the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs of the Bolshevik Management K. V. Chicherin noted as protest to the Ambassador of the Ottoman Empire in Moscow; notified that the territory of Dagestan belongs to Russia and they won't legitimatize the new founded republic. And the Ottoman Empire paid no attention this note, and signed an agreement of peace and friendship with the North Caucasian Republic. According to the agreement the Ottoman Empire will aid to the Caucasus political and military, and will defend against threats from outside. And sent the first help and defence in 20 September 1918. Thus materialized the plan of Caucasus Islamic Army for the North Caucasus. Because religious and national feelings of Muslim Turks was constituting the fundamental basis of the Ottoman Empire for the politics about the Caucasus.