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Armenian Genocide

Minister of War Enver Pasha implemented a plan to encircle and destroy the Russian Caucasus Army

Thursday Dec 24, 1914
Turkey (then Ottoman Empire)

On 24 December 1914, Minister of War Enver Pasha implemented a plan to encircle and destroy the Russian Caucasus Army at Sarikamish in order to regain territories lost to Russia after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878. Enver Pasha's forces were routed in the battle, and almost completely destroyed. Returning to Constantinople, Enver Pasha publicly blamed his defeat on Armenians in the region having actively sided with the Russians.


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