Treaty of Batum Treaty of Batum was signed in Batum between the Ottoman Empire and 3 Trans - caucasus states — First Republic of Armenia , Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and Democratic Republic of Georgia on June 4 , 1918 . It was the first treaty of the First Republic of Armenia . It consisted of 14 articles . Background . On December 5 , 1917 , the armistice of Erzincan was signed between the Russians and Ottomans in Erzincan . It ended the armed conflicts between Russia and Ottoman Empire in the Persian Campaign and Caucasus Campaign of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I . On March 3 , 1918 , the armistice of Erzincan followed up with the Treaty of Brest - Litovsk marking Russia ' s exit from World War I . Between March 14 - April 1918 the Trabzon peace conference held between the Ottoman Empire and the delegation of the Transcaucasian Diet ( Transcaucasian Sejm ) . Enver Pasha offered to surrender all ambitions in the Caucasus in return for recognition of the Ottoman reacquisition of the east Anatolian provinces at Brest - Litovsk at the end of the negotiations . On April 5 , the head of the Transcaucasian delegation Akaki Chkhenkeli accepted the Treaty of Brest - Litovsk as a basis for more negotiations and wired the governing bodies urging them to accept this position . The mood prevailing in Tiflis was very different . The Armenians pressured the Republic to refuse . They acknowledged the existence of a state of war between themselves and the Ottoman Empire . Hostilities resumed and the Ottoman troops overran new lands to the east , reaching the pre - war borders . Treaty . On May 11 , a new peace conference opened at Batum . At this conference Ottomans extended their demands to include Tiflis as well as Alexandropol and Echmiadzin ; they also wanted a railroad to be built to connect Kars and Julfa with Baku . The new Armenian state , through which this transport corridor would run , was to give free right of passage . The Armenian and Georgian members of the Republic ’ s delegation began to stall . Beginning on May 21 , the Ottoman army moved ahead once again into areas of Russian Armenia that had not been under the sultan ’ s control since the seventeenth century . The conflict led to the Battle of Sardarapat ( May 21 – 29 ) , the Battle of Kara Killisse ( 1918 ) ( May 24 – 28 ) , and the Battle of Bash Abaran ( May 21 – 24 ) . The treaty was signed while the Third Army held positions 7 kilometers from Yerevan and only 10 kilometers from Echmiadzin . The treaty needed to be examined and confirmed by the Central Powers . Fifteen days after the treaty , delegates from Armenia were asked to come to Constantinople . In the surrendered territories the majority of the 1 , 250 , 000 pre - war inhabitants had been Armenians , with more than 400 , 000 in the ceded sector of Yerevan province alone . Aftermath . General Andranik had refused to accept the Treaty of Batum . Andranik continued resistance with the intention of declaring a new Armenian state to be called the Republic of Mountainous Armenia . During 1918 , Andranik ' s activities were concentrated at the Karabakh - Zanghezur , the link between the Ottoman Empire and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic . Signatures . Ottoman side : Armenian side : Azerbaijanian side : Georgian side :