Abstract:

Russia took the advantage of the contribution of the Armenian armed organizations in order to possess Istanbul, straits around it, Eastern Anatolia, to weaken Turkey, to be strengthened in the Southern Caucasus, organized the rebellion of the Armenians living in Turkey against the government. Russian ruling circles put forward the Armenian matter in order to take advantage of them. Armenians involved in the war to create their own government by obtaining the territory including Van, Bitlis, Tigranakert, Erzurum, Kharberd and Sebastya, as well as Cilicia from Turkey, to solve their Armenian problem. But in fact, Russia, France and England tried to blow to Turkey pretending to try to build an independent Armenian government. The degree of contribution of Armenian military units in the First World War can be characterized as follows: 1. Creating the Armenian volunteer units. 2nd Establishing the regular battalions and infantry regiments and forming the national corpuses. The organizations of Hnchak and Dashnaksutyun actively participated in creating the Armenian volunteer units. Dashnaks mobilized 40,000 people to destroy the Turkish people. They established tens of Khumbas. The Armenian volunteer units were commanded by Andranic Ozanyan, Dro, Amazasp, Keri, Checho, Vardan. Armenian volunteer units which were supposed to move in 4 directions should act in the directions where the Armenian people were densely populated. These 4 Armenian volunteer units fight against Turks in all important combat operations from Sarigamish to Erzurum. The same time the Russian army and Armenians triggered the rebellion of the local population against the Turkish government. 50,000 of Armenians were fighting in French, England and U.S. armies. The Eastern Legion of Armenians was established in the French army on November 1916. On November 15, 1918, the Eastern Legion was named Armenian Legion. The number of the Armenians in the legion riched to 4000. In the beginning of 1916, there was an announcement about the subordination of the military detachments to the army and establishment of infantry regiments based on that. The establishment of the separate Armenian corpus began at the end of December 1917. In 1917, 8 Armenian shooter regiments were established. From the mentioned 8 regiments two Armenian shooter divisions, the special Armenian division of Andranic, 3 infantry brigades of western Armenians in the Southern Caucasus region, some guerrilla troops in Yerevan, Igdir guerrilla infantry and rider regiments, Olive regiment in Tbilisi were established.

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