Abstract:

This article aims to analyze the report of Tevfik Beg, deputy consol of the Ottoman Empire in Resht (İran) that contains  his thoughts and observations about the impacts of the military situation of the Ottoman Empire in  Caucasia and the Sarikamis Campaign on the Caucasia Muslims  in the beginning of the first World War.                                                                                                               The report mentioned above contains  the important details about the Russian raids against the Ottoman conculates in Crimea, Caucasia and Iran as soon as the war begins and the Ottoman consular officials how to be arrested by Russian soldiers. Moreover, it includes the activities of Pastırmacian, the Ottoman parliamenter , and his friends who came to Tiflis against Ottomans, and ,during that time, the opinions of Muslim and Georgian notables like journalists and writers and as well as  with whom deputy Ottoman consul interviewed.

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