Հայկական հարցը Տրապիզոնի կոնֆերանսի ժամանակաշրջանում (Փետրուարի 10/23 - Ապրիլի 9/22 1918)
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1995
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Just after the opening of the Conference of Brest-Litovsk, the Ottoman Delegation presented their conditions for peace with the Russian Empire. They were these conditions which later, at the peace talks at Trebizond between the Ottoman and Caucasian delegations, served as the bases for the peace talks.
The Caucasian Seim, which had come into existence after the Russian Revolution, could not agree with the Ottoman demands of first rupture from the Russian entity and then of the declaration of independence of the Caucasian regions so as to have the facility of easily occupying all the Caucasus.
The article presents the non-homogeneity of the Caucasian Delegation of the Seim sent to Trebizond. It was made of the various representatives of the Georgian, Azeri and Armenian peoples, as well as the various political parties and religious and political entities. The racial, religious and political differences put the component parts of the Caucasian Delegation at variance in their stand first among themselves and then with the Ottoman Delegation. Backed by the Turks, the Caucasian Azeris openly expressed their stand with the Ottoman side and endeavoured to impose their will on the Georgian and Armenian delegates to accept the Ottoman demands. The acceptance of the Ottoman demands would surely leave the Caucasians at the mercy of the insatiable appetite and greed of the Ottomans.
They were these divergences of stand that at last led the Caucasian Seim to call home its delegation to the Trebizond Conference, and in front of the Ottoman onslaught into the plain of Ararat and the Turkish demands of the immediate evacuation of the Kars and Alexandropole regions, it felt itself unable to resist and hence made known its rupture from the Russian entity and declared the independence of the Caucasus. Meanwhile the Ottoman advance into the heartland of Eastern Armenia was halted by the Armenian forces at Sardarapat, Bash Aparan and Karakilisse.
Making an abundent use of non-published and archival material found both in Tibilissi and Yerevan state libraries, and the published French, Austrian and Russian documents, the author gives the vivid, detailed and exact story of the Conference of Trebizond.
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Աւետիսեան, Հ., «Հայկական հարցը Տրապիզոնի կոնֆերանսի ժամանակաշրջանում (Փետրուարի 10/23 - Ապրիլի 9/22 1918), «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 1995, Պէյրութ, էջ 183-234