The political situation in South Azerbaijan during World War I

Southern Azerbaijan became a battlefield for Ottoman and Tsarist Russia during World War I. At the same time, foreign missions and missiona ry organizations of some Western states in the western region of South Azerbaijan organized a small number of Armenians and Aysors who had migrated and lived here in a scattered manner. After the October coup of 1917, the plan to create a united Armenian A ysor armed group consisting of Armenians Aysors living here and also newly taking refuge here in the western region of South Azerbaijan was accelerated. The weapons of the returning Russian army were also taken and given to the united Armenian Aysor armed group that was organized. The created armed group began the mass genocide of Azerbaijanis in the western region of South Azerbaijan in February 1918. As a result of the mass genocide that lasted 6 months, according to the census conducted on the ground by the commission established after the genocide, up to 200 thousand Azerbaijanis became victims of the genocide.