Azerbaijan Turk in Russian army in anatolia

I also mean Turks in world history - pg 142 and 148

But lets not forget that teh tsarist imperial army is diffrent than the communistic crimson army.

There policy towards other people are quite diffrent I think

Originally posted by Zagros Azaris were historical enemies of Osmanli,  Osmanli invaded Iranian Azarbaijan in WW1 and commited much atrocity - so maybe they wanted revenge.

Edited by Alparslan - 02-Apr-2007 at 04:11

Originally posted by ArmenianSurvival Originally posted by AlpArslan 30-31 March 1918: The massacre of about 20,000 Azerbaijanis in Baku is perpetrated by the Russian Red (Communist) Army and Armenian Dashnaks      What? The Dashnaks organized the Armenians to fight against the Soviet invasion of Armenia in the 1920's, and their political party was banned in the Soviet Union, as their ideology of a free and independent Armenia directly contradicted the Soviet status quo.... Originally posted by AlpArslan SOURCE : Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan      Ah yes, the chief authority of knowledge of Dashnak-Soviet relations

Edited by Alparslan - 02-Apr-2007 at 06:19

Originally posted by AlpArslan We are talking about the year 1918 in WWI, not 1920's after the war and not Soviet period

     Yes, we are talking about 1918, less than a year after the Russian army withdrew from the Caucasus to participate in the Russian Revolution....

     Either way, it does not change my point that the Dashnaks are politically and ideologically enemies of Communists (since you claimed that Dashnaks collaborated with the Red Army). Dashnaks support a free and independent Armenia, and nothing else. This is a complete contradiction of the ideology supported by the Red Army. They were such enemies that there were many Dashnak Armenians from Iran, Lebanon, etc, who did not support Armenia in any way during that era simply because it was a Communist state. The Dashnak party itself was banned by the Communists, and had to keep itself alive through the Armenian diaspora. Thats why your claim that Dashnaks collaborated with the Communists for anything is complete hogwash.

Originally posted by AlpArslan What do you know about Armenian activities in Azerbaijan during WW1? Why did Russians support Armenians and how?

     I obviously know enough to know that the Russian army wasn't in Armenia or Azerbaijan in 1918.....

Originally posted by AlpArslan The Capital of Azerbaijan is included in "Greater Armenia". Your National History Museum tells us a lot what was your intentions about Baku and in a broader point of view about Turks in WW1

     Baku is not included in the borders of Greater Armenia. Moreover, as mamikon cleverly pointed out, its in a history museum. Those are the historical borders of Armenia (political and cultural borders) throughout at least 2,500 years of history.

     If an Istanbul museum has Ottoman maps showing the entire middle east as Turkish territory, does that mean that Turks have imperialistic aims towards Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, etc? Do you realize how ridiculous that sounds?