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DIŞ BASIN VE OSMANLI ARŞİV BELGELERİ IŞIĞINDA BREST LİTOVSK’TAN İNGİLİZ İŞGALİNE “BATUM” (Haziran 1918-Ocak 1919) / BATUM: FROM BREST-LITOVSK TO THE BRITISH INVASION IN VIEW OF EXTERNAL MEDIA AND OTTOMAN ARCHIVE DOCUMENTS (JUNE 1918- JANUARY 1919)
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk had given the people in Kars, Ardahan and Batum the freedom to appoint their own futures. Concordantly, Elviye-i Selâse (three-shire area), as it was known, was part of the Ottoman Empire after the referendum on 14 July, 1918…