Despite this victory (Sardarabad it) is most relevant for Armenia and political deterioration in the Caucasus is so serious that there is no reason for celebration in Armenia.

At the conference, Batum, Turkey seems insatiable for the region. Khalil Bey, the new agreement was a blow to all the delegates, but the Tartars. Georgia, Armenia, the country is experiencing, they eat the Turks, and captured at the point that the imperial ambitions of Germany and Turkey to deviate from the Caucasus, Georgia seeks protection from Germany. In Germany, the growing influence in Georgia before the war, and willing to provide him protection. He did not want to assist the Young Turks for large expansion to the east. Indeed, at present, the German generals were trying to persuade Turkey to send more troops to the south to the Arab provinces, which threatens to English.

May 24 von Lossow failed in his attempt to mediate between the Turks and the Transcaucasus, and the same day he reached a secret agreement with Georgia, to provide protection when it declared itself independent. Georgia skillful move. Turkey did not dare to attack its ally the senior partner (although for one brief occasion, it happens). The next day, von Lossow sailed from Batumi, with the necessary documents for the agreements that will arrive in Poti, a day or two later, after Georgia declared independence.

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