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Under the Soviet Union , Joseph Stalin decided Deciding to make the Nagorno-Karabakh region , historically Armenian and with a majority-Armenian population , an autonomous oblast in Soviet Azerbaijan .

The Khaibalikend massacre was a mass and indiscriminate killing Killing of Armenian civilians in the villages of Khaibalikend , Jamillu , Karkujahan and Pahliul in the Nagorno–Karabakh , from June 5 to 7 , 1919 .

Sultanov was an Azerbaijani of Kurdish origin known Know for his anti-Armenian views Perception_active , and this decision Deciding was strenuously opposed Agree_or_refuse_to_act by the Armenian population of Karabakh , led by the Karabakh 's Armenian Council , which favored Nagorno-Karabakh 's unification with the newly established Building Republic of Armenia .

There was also opposition voiced by the Armenian government , as well as a number of American diplomats and relief Assistance officials working Being_in_operation in the region , who cited Adducing Sultanov 's past collaboration with the Ottoman armies that had occupied Control the area in 1918 .

The Armenian part of the town was blockaded Besieging , and its Armenian population found Know itself in an acute need of food and drinking water .

The clashes were not confined to the towns , and , according to Swietochowswki , citing Adducing Armenian sources 128 Armenian and 158 Azerbaijani villages were destroyed Destroying or pillaged Robbery , while the overall estimates of lives lost Earnings_and_losses vary widely , ranging from 3,000 to 10,000 , with Azerbaijanis suffering Confronting_problem higher losses , which stemmed Preventing_or_letting from Azeri mobs being organized Arranging poorly and Dashnaks on the Armenian side being more effective .

The Armenian Genocide ( , ; ; ) , also known as the Armenian Holocaust , was the Ottoman government 's systematic extermination of 700,000 to 1.5 million Armenians , mostly citizens of the Ottoman Empire .

The starting date is conventionally held Defending to be 24 April 1915 , the day that Ottoman authorities rounded up , arrested Arrest , and deported Removing from Constantinople ( now Istanbul ) to the region of Angora ( Ankara ) , 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders , the majority of whom were eventually murdered Committing_crime .

Most Armenian diaspora communities around the world came Bringing into being as a direct result of the genocide .

The Armenian Genocide is acknowledged Statement to have been one of the first modern genocides Killing , because scholars point to the organized Arranging manner in which the killings were carried out Action .

The Assyrian genocide Killing ( also known as Sayfo or Seyfo , `` Sword '' ; or ) refers to the mass slaughter of the Assyrian population of the Ottoman Empire and those in neighbouring Persia by Ottoman troops during the First World War Hostile_encounter , in conjunction with the Armenian and Greek genocides Killing .

The Assyrian genocide Killing took place Process_start in the same context as the Armenian and Greek genocides Killing .

The Armenian Revolutionary Federation members saw Self_motion its seizure as their best attempt to bring Bringing full attention to their plight .

As Azerbaijan declared Expressing_publicly its independence from the Soviet Union and removed Removing the powers held Defending by the enclave 's government , the Armenian majority voted Choosing to secede Escaping from Azerbaijan and in the process proclaimed Statement the unrecognized Know Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh .

In early 1993 , Armenian forces captured Conquering regions outside the enclave itself , threatening the involvement of other countries in the region .

This has left Departing the Nagorno-Karabakh area in a state of legal Legality limbo , with the Republic of Artsakh remaining Presence de facto independent but internationally unrecognized Know while Armenian forces currently control Control approximately 9 % of Azerbaijan 's territory outside the enclave .

The defection of the Armenian general Tatzates , however , allowed Preventing_or_letting Harun to regain Recovering the upper hand Giving .

Assisted Assistance by catapults and mangonels , Mongol , Armenian and Frankish forces Hostile_encounter overran the entire city , except for the citadel which held Defending out until 25 February and was demolished Destroying following its capitulation .

On the Allied side were Arabs who participated Participation in the Arab Revolt and the Armenian militia who participated Participation in the Armenian Resistance during the Armenian Genocide ; along with Armenian volunteer units , the Armenian militia formed Coming_to_be the Armenian Corps of the First Republic of Armenia in 1918 .

After an initial Armenian occupation of what is now eastern Turkey , the army of the Turkish National Movement under Kâzım Karabekir reversed Change the Armenian gains and further invaded Attack and defeated Conquering Armenia , also recapturing Conquering territory which the Ottoman Empire had lost Earnings_and_losses to the Russian Empire in 1855 and 1878 .

The Ottomans had tried to move the Armenians during the Armenian Genocide and occupied Hold the South Caucasus during Summer 1918 .

The story of this campaign has very different perceptions from Armenian and Azerbaijani viewpoints .

According to Armenian historians , the First Republic of Armenia aimed Aiming to include Cause_to_be_included Nakhchivan among the basic ( Eastern Armenian ) territories of the Erivan Governorate , as well as the eastern and southern parts of the Elisabethpol Governorate .

The Capture Conquering of Shusha , referred Statement to by Armenians as the Liberation of Shushi ( `` Shushii azatagrum '' ) or Wedding Social_event in the mountains operation ( ) and by Azerbaijanis as the Occupation of Shusha ( ) was the first significant military victory by Armenian forces during the Nagorno-Karabakh War .

The battle took place Process_start in the strategically important mountain town of Shusha ( known as `` Shushi '' to Armenians ) on the evening of May 8 , 1992 , and fighting Hostile_encounter swiftly concluded Process_end the next day after Armenian forces Military_operation captured Conquering it and drove Motion out the defending Azeris .

Armenian military commanders based in Nagorno-Karabakh 's capital of Stepanakert ( Azerbaijani : Xankəndi ) had been contemplating the capture of the town after Azeri shelling of Stepanakert .

It was named Name_conferral `` Wedding Social_event in the Mountains '' by the Armenian commandership .

Shusha was the most important military stronghold that Azerbaijan held Hold in Nagorno-Karabakh – its loss Earnings_and_losses marked Recording a turning point in the war , and led to Causation a series of military victories by Armenian forces in the course of the conflict .

The offensive Military_operation , and in particular the degree of Turkish involvement Participation in it , has been widely attributed Judgment_communication with the deportation Removing of the native ethnic Armenians of the town of Kessab , who make up 70 % of its population , and has been compared Check with the past Turkish killings Killing of Armenians during the Hamidian massacres Killing and Armenian Genocide .

Several contemporaneous observers and later historians have concluded Coming_to_believe that the Ottoman government deliberately instigated Process_start the armed Armenian resistance Defending by enforcing Action the conditions on their subjects and then used Using this insurgency Hostile_encounter as a main pretext to justify Justifying the forced deportations Removing of Armenians from all over the empire .

The assessment Testing of witness reports maintained Statement that the Armenian posture at Van was defensive and an act of resistance Defending to massacre Killing .

Based mostly in the city of Van , it was one of the few successful instances during the Armenian Genocide when Armenians fought Hostile_encounter against the Ottoman Empire 's armed forces .

According to the Azerbaijani side , as well as the Memorial Human Rights Center , Human Rights Watch and other international observers , the massacre Killing was committed Commitment by the ethnic Armenian armed forces , reportedly with help Assistance of some military personnel of the 366th CIS regiment , apparently not acting on orders Arranging from the command Control .

Despite the successful retreat Escaping back to Syria , the Persians did keep Temporary_stay Caesarea ( modern Kayseri ) and the key Armenian fortresses of Theodosiopolis ( modern Erzurum ) and Martyropolis .

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