Another important event that made the month of May important for the history of the Caucasus was the peace talks held in 1918 in Istanbul, Trebizond, and Batumi between the Ottoman Empire and the representatives of the North Caucasus and Transcaucasian Sejm. As the border disputes between the Transcaucasian representatives and the Ottoman Empire could not be resolved at the end of these negotiations, Greater Caucasian Confederation dream was ruined, and these states were dragged into the conflicts that caused them to become an easy bite for the Russian Bolsheviks within three years.You can read document collections about these negotiations both in the Turkish and Russian languages in our library through the following links;
Irakli Yakobashvili - Trapezundskaya i Batumskaya Mirnyye Konferentsii (2018)
Enis Şahin - Trabzon Ve Batum Konferansları ve Antlaşmaları (2002)
We are preparing the striking primary sources and copies of the original documents about the last leg of the negotiations, the Batum talks, where the rupture took place, to be published here in the very near future…
