THE ASSIGNMENT OF THE DELEGATION OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE DURING THE NEGOTIATION OF THE ERZINJAN TEM-PORARY TREATY

Abstract

The article deals with the position fixed by the delegation of the Ottoman Empire about the Erzinjan Treaty agreement on the base of the documents published by the Turkish historians: Fahri Tash, Selami Kılıch and Enis Shahin. The content of the documents is a novelty for Georgian historiography . Their importance lies in clarifying in what circumstances the Erzinjan Temporary Treaty was prepared and in what situation it was signed, where was a diplomatic mistake made by the delegation of Transcaucasian Commissariat which later became a harmful factor on the treaty conference.