Abstract:

Ispir is one of the two most important passage points located in the northeastern part of Turkey, connecting the Eastern Anadolu and Eastern Black Sea regions. In addition to this geopolitical importance, it has continuously suffered to the scandals and immigration movements throughout the history due to its favorable agriculture and its underground wealth. With the arrival of M.S. The VII. Since the century, it has begun to turquoise, and for certain intervals it has been one of the places where the Kıpçak Turks, then Muslim Turks, settled. Ispir, which remains under the rule of many Turkish states, is historically one of the places where the Armenians claim rights over. It is one of the settlements that became the Ottoman state since 1514 and was exposed to Armenian massacre in the years of the First World War. Ispir, who was occupied by the Russians in February 1916, this time, with the retreat of the Russians from the region due to the 1917 Bolshevik opposition, was exposed to the Armenians' unreasonable misconduct. The events caused by the attempt of the Armenian gang rider Arshak to destroy the topyekûn against the Turkish-Islamic people, which received orders from Antranik, are fixed with historical documents, and still hold a place in memories. The district, which with the withdrawal of the Çoruh Müfrezesi to Bayburt with its fate, has been forced to ensure its own liberation. From the Bayburt region, the Armenians who lived in Ispir with the excuse to save the Armenians in the Hodüçor village located in the northeastern part of Ispir, and the majority of the district, who intended to destroy the Turkish-Islamic allies completely, did not succeed in their purposes, and on 25 February 1918 the Turkish forces ended the two-year occupation by entering Ispir.

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