Alınteri sosyal bilimler dergisi (Jul 2020)
The Armenians Politics of Russia Before the World War I
Abstract
After the Ottoman Empire lost the Balkan Wars that its situation changed drastically. The living of some part of Armenians undertook insurrection, rebellion and espionage activifies belong to foreign states from the ending of the 19th century. But, after this hald of the century had emerged artificial international issue under the name of the Armenian crises and The Tsarist Russia was also a part of this problem. The construction of Armenian committees, seperation movements was effective within Armenians at Turkey after 1890’s. On the other hand, Russia which influenced these separatist movement, sought ways to achieve its ancient southern politics. Therefore, the most important spreading ways of Russia were passing through in the Ottoman lands. Russia was just started its important attempt to realize this policy before World War, I. Fort his reason, the Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire had always been the center of attention of Russian Empire. Armenians, whom were affected by separatist ideas at the en of the 19th century in Ottoman, wre at the top of these minorities. What kind of policy did Russia make about the Armenians jusf before the World War, I? Could it be the common policy of Armenians and Russians? What policy did they pursue each other? So, this study was focused on the politics following by both sections.
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