A new book titled "The Eastern (Caucasian) Front in the First World War" by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sayim Türkman, a faculty member in the History of the Republic Department, has been published.
We congratulate our esteemed colleague and wish him continued success.
BOOK INTRODUCTION
This work reveals the process by which the Ottoman Empire entered the First World War alongside the German Empire—kept as a national secret by Enver Pasha—and the disclosures made by Kazım Karabekir Pasha that brought this to light. Additionally, it provides a detailed explanation, supported by numerous sources, of several critical events: the deaths of one hundred thousand of our soldiers due to cold and disease as a result of Enver Pasha’s decision to launch a military operation in the Sarıkamış region without considering winter conditions; the subsequent advance of Russian forces—who took advantage of the collapse of the Third Army—to occupy Erzurum, Trabzon, and Erzincan; the four-month-long defense at Kop that bought time for reinforcements to arrive; and the opportunity presented by the 1917 Russian Revolution was turned to our advantage, leading to the cleansing of our cities and territories—up to Baku—from Russian forces and Armenian militias.
