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Battle of Oltu was a major defeat for the Turks, and their army retreated all the way back to their starting position with between 60,000 and 175,000 troops. Enver Pasha gave up command of the army and publicly blamed the Armenians for his defeat. As War Minister he ordered that all Armenian recruits in the Ottoman forces be disarmed, demobilized and assigned to labor camps, where nearly all died, a key step on the path to the Armenian Genocide.[1]
[edit] References
- Falls, Cyril (1960). The Great War pp 158-160. (covers 1915 fighting)
- Pollard, A. F. (1920). A Short History of the Great War (chapter 10). (covers 1916 fighting)
- Fromkin, David (1989). A Peace to End All Peace, pp. 351-355. Avon Books. (covers 1918 operations)
- Harutyunian, The 1918 Turkish aggression in Transcaucasus, Yerevan, 1985. (covers conquest of Armenia, 1918)
- ^ * Strachan, Hew (2003). The First World War, pp 109-112. Viking (Published by the Penguin Group) (1914 operations)
