The third move broke the momentum

At the end of July, we wrote that the Turkish army again brought to the fore the philosophy of "Let's go to our homeland" and that the situation was very similar to that of 1918.

The unlimited support given to Azerbaijan "on the battlefield and at the diplomatic table" (especially by those who rule Turkey, including the president) to liberate their lands from occupation has yielded results that will be unforgotten throughout history. The first part of the process ended with the December 10 parade in Baku.

This was the third move since the Ottoman Empire to restore and protect the independence and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, and its unprecedented success has significantly changed the balance between the three seas (Mediterranean, Black Sea, and Caspian). (The notion of "It is a candidate to change" that we have been focusing on since the summer is long gone.)

So how did this happen? First of all, the essence of the philosophy of this cooperation, which was founded after the socialist revolution of 1917, was right, and just as it has been impossible for Turkey and Azerbaijan to escape from it, it will no longer be possible. Those who have this philosophy adopted to the Ottoman Empire were Ali bey Huseynzade and Ahmad bey Aghaoglu, who were forced to flee from Baku during Tsarist Russia.

Huseynzade and Aghaoglu were also the ideological instigators of Lieutenant-Colonel Nuri Pasha, the brother of Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Ottoman Army, Anvar Pasha, who was summoned to Istanbul from Libya in January 1918 and instructed to establish the Caucasus Islamic Army.

By writing "conquest" articles in the Istanbul press since the end of 1917, Huseynzade and Aghaoglu, who had Anvar Pasha accepted the principle "Let's go to our homeland instead of looking for happiness in the deserts of Arabia", encouraged the army of Nuri Pasha, who had been awarded the rank of honorary Lieutenant-General, to go to Ganja after visiting Tabriz under the doctrine "The existence of the Turkic state here is under threat, there is an opportunity to build an independent state in our homeland, we must go there".

The migration of the independent Azerbaijani state to its borders was carried out under the auspices of Nuri Pasha's army, which was forced to leave Azerbaijan 45 days after the Ottoman Empire was defeated in World War after clearing Baku of its occupiers.

The philosophy of "Let's go to our homeland" was so deeply imprinted in the mind of the Ankara government founded by Mustafa Kemal Pasha and then proclaimed the Republic of Turkey that Gazi Pasha opened the embassy of socialist Azerbaijan in Ankara in 1921 and announced the name of the girl he was going to marry for the first time at the house of Ambassador Ibrahim Abilov.

The second move of the philosophy of "Let's go to our homeland" was carried out by the Turkish army in July 1992. Turkish generals, whose first task was to rid Karabakh of separatists, terrorists, and those who carried out genocide, also laid the foundations of the national army. Political games prevented the realization of the plan while preparing for a decisive operation by creating groups of 12 thousand people in the Turkish army.

But this time the situation was different from 1918. So that; 1) A significant number of Turkish officers continued to serve as advisers in the Azerbaijani army and taught in military schools; 2) Azerbaijan did not give up sending students to Turkish military schools and academies; 3) Turkey has always kept the issue of army building and deepening military cooperation between the two countries relevant by sending its most professional servicemen to the embassy in Baku as a military attache (Army General Saldıray Berk, Colonel-General Engin Alan, etc.). In particular, Azerbaijan, which has strengthened its military potential over the past 10 years, has been keen to strengthen military cooperation in parallel with economic cooperation.

In particular, cooperation in the field of sale and purchase of modern weapons, which in recent years has given the Turkish army a great advantage in the fight against terrorism inside the country and in military operations abroad, has brought Azerbaijan incomparably ahead.

When the staff planning and the supply of ammunition became a whole with the factor that a significant part of the army's general staff was educated and trained in Turkey, the desire to liberate the lands from occupation intensified. As the operations continued, we noted that Azerbaijan's resolute position would "cause a significant breakdown in regional and even global geopolitics".

Here it is. The December 10 victory parade showed that the "breakdown" has already taken place. It seems that the Turkish army, which made its third move in 102 years "to go to its homeland", will remain there this time.

Thanks to the precise philosophy defined by Huseynzade and Aghaoglu, this case is becoming paradigmatic.

If only those who created "autonomy" within the borders of Azerbaijan on July 7, 1923, knew that the "momentum" in the Caucasus would break after 97.5 years…

Mayis Alizade