1921 Kars Treaty and Turkish-Armenian Relations

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RUSSIAN LAWMAKERS SUGGEST ANNULLING 1921 TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP WITH TURKEY

13:26, 08 Feb 2016
Siranush Ghazanchyan

Members of Russia's State Duma (lower house of parliament) Valery
Rashkin and Sergei Obukhov (Communist Party faction) have sent a
letter to the country's leadership and the Foreign Ministry proposing
to denounce the Moscow Treaty of Friendship and Brotherhood signed On
March 16, 1921, by the government of Soviet Russia (RSFSR) and the
Grand National Assembly of Turkey, writes Russia's Izvestia daily
which has obtained the text of the letter, TASS reports.

"We should consider a possibility of legal review of all
Russian-Turkish agreements that are unfavorable for our country and
its allies. Ankara must understand what the escalation of the conflict
could be fraught with for it. Only this can bring it to earth and
prevent it from carrying out new provocations," Obukhov told Izvestia.

The initiative has been supported by the Just Russia faction.

According to State Duma member Oleg Pakholkov, the Moscow treaty was
signed to the detriment of Russia's interests.

Obukhov noted that "two of the three South Caucasian republics -
Georgia and Armenia - did not recognize the terms of the treaty
considering it unfair." "One should realize that in 1921 the
Bolshevik (Soviet) government was literally hanging by a single
thread: the foreign intervention and civil war continued. Under
those circumstances Soviet Russia could not speak from a position of
strength and impose more favorable terms of the treaty on Turkey,"
the parliamentarian said.

The newspaper notes that under the treaty "the former Kars region
and the southern part of the former Batumi region that were part of
the Russian Empire since 1878 as well as former Surmalin district
of Erivan Governorate that was part of the Russian Empire since 1828
with Mount Ararat were ceded to Turkey."

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Is it for real, or political posturing?

RUSSIA MPS PROPOSE ANNULMENT OF 1921 TREATY OF MOSCOW WITH TURKEY

12:48, 08.02.2016
Region:Russia, Turkey
Theme: Politics

Russian State Duma members Valery Rashkin and Sergei Obukhov have
petitioned to President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei
Lavrov, and proposed to sever the brotherhood and friendship treaty
(Treaty of Moscow) which the then Russian Soviet Federative Socialist
Republic (Bolshevist Russia) and Turkey had signed in 1921, according
to Izvestia daily of Russia.

"Ankara needs to understand what the escalation of the conflict can
turn into," Obukhov said.

And as per Duma member Oleg Pakholkov, Turkey has posited very hard
conditions, including a point on Nagorno-Karabakh.

"But the Turks need to be disciplined," Pakholkov added. "If you
have adopted a traitorous position today, severing the treaty is an
equivalent step; Armenia will assist us in this matter."

He noted that even if the severance of this accord will not have a
major legal force, it will express the territorial claims with which
the Russian side does not agree.

"Two of the three Transcaucasian republics--Armenia and Georgia
[except for Azerbaijan]--don't recognize the terms of the treaty,"
Sergei Obukhov said. "We need to understand that in 1921, the Bolshevik
power was hanging by a thread."

Pursuant to this treaty, most of Kars Province, southern part of former
Batumi Province, and Surmalu District--along with Mount Ararat--of
Yerevan Province were given to Turkey.

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Book on the fall of Kars is published

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Yerevan /Mediamax/. By the initiative of Modus Vivendi Center, the presentation of the book “Kars marz (province) within the First Republic of Armenia (April 1919 - October 1920): Materials and documents” took place today.

Head of Modus Vivendi Center Ara Papian said that publication of such work aims at providing the readers with rare documents, which haven’t been released to the public yet or are difficult to access.

“In the book you can find extracts from the memoirs of Kars civilian governor Stepan Ghorghanyan, various materials about the Armenian Army and republic,” he said.

According to Ara Papian, the book is relevant, as “there are many similarities between reality now and in 1920”.

The author of the book Vladimir Harutyunyan said that the documents he collected give food for thought on the importance of maintaining Armenian statehood.

According to the author, the book contains many important documents depicting the situation in Kars marz and the Armenian army brigade stationed there, which lead to surrender of Kars to Kemal’s forces in 1920.

http://www.mediamax.am/en/news/society/20408/