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The topic of the liberation of Baku is on the pages of Azerbaijan newspaper

Gülnarə əliyeva · Akademik Tarih ve Dusunce Dergisi, 2024

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The liberation of Baku as covered in 'Azerbaijan', the official newspaper of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

The article explains how, under the military-assistance clause of the friendship treaty signed with the Ottoman Empire right after the declaration of independence on 28 May 1918, Ottoman forces were sent to Azerbaijan and the Caucasus Islamic Army was formed on the basis of the existing national units. The liberation of Baku from Armenian-Bolshevik and foreign forces on 15 September 1918 is presented as the peak of the army's struggle. Its original contribution is the analysis of reports on the liberation published in the government's official newspapers 'Azərbaycan' and the Russian-language 'Azerbaidjan'.

The source's own abstract

On May 28, 1918, immediately after the declaration of state independence, a friendship treaty was signed between the government of Azerbaijan and the Ottoman state. Article 4 of that agreement, signed in Batum on June 4, 1918, stipulated that military assistance would be provided to the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic if necessary. Taking advantage of this opportunity in the complex military and political situation, the government of the Republic officially appealed to the Ottoman state for military assistance. Based on that request, a limited number of Ottoman military forces were sent to Azerbaijan. With these forces, the Caucasian Islamic Army was created on the basis of the existing national military forces of Azerbaijan. The peak of the struggle of the Caucasian Islamic Army for the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan was the liberation of Baku from the Armenian-Bolshevik and foreign forces on September 15, 1918. In order to study the history of the liberation of Baku from foreign forces, there is also interesting information on the pages of "Azerbaijan" and "Azerbaidjan" newspapers, which are the official press bodies of the government of Azerbaijan. The current article is devoted to the analysis of the information published on the "Azerbaijan" and "Azerbaidjan" pages about the liberation of Baku by the Caucasian Islamic Army.