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This article investigates the genocide committed by Armenians in Karabakh in 1918-1920, the military aggression of the Republic of Armenia to the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and its consequences, the international situation in the region based on sources and scientific literature. During the research, new facts were revealed based on sources related to the topic, and significant results were obtained. With the agreement detailed in the article dated 15 August 1919, few Armenians living in Karabakh recognized the Azerbaijani government and accepted that Karabakh is the Azerbaijan region. It is understood from the terms of the agreement that the Armenians follow an ethnic dissolution policy and forced the Azerbaijanis to leave their lands. The Azerbaijanis, who had to leave due to the political actions of the Armenians, were allowed to return to their land without barriers.As a result of the research, it is understood that the Azerbaijani government took important steps to save Karabakh from Armenian aggression, genocide and ethnic cleansing in the 1918-1920s, established a local government and sent troops to protect internal discipline. As a result of the diplomatic maneuvers and well-thought foreign and internal policies of the Azerbaijani government, the Armenian government could not implement the occupation policy in 1918-1920 and the Karabakh region remained the land of Azerbaijan. Documents, collections of documents and materials, scientific literature published in Azerbaijani and Russian languages were used in writing the article. The scientific importance of the article is too big in terms of informing the world community about the genocide of Azerbaijanis and our just position on the Nagorno Karabakh issue.

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