The War Between Period and Exclamation Mark: New Reality and Nagorno-Karabakh: The Cemre that Fell to Nagorno-Karabakh
Journal: Tarih İncelemeleri Dergisi
Year: 2021

Having always been competition fields thanks to their geopolitical impact potential, the Caucasus and Turkestan have been among the Strategic Focus Centres of Russia since the Tsarist times. While Russia, whose strategic culture has produced expansionist policies for centuries, constantly expanded its political borders, it clashed with the Ottoman Empire and Iran in the Caucasus field of competition. From the second half of the 19th century, the Kazakh regions and independent Turkic states (Khiv