The Role of Azerbaijan Oil in Armenian Activities in the First Republic Era (1918-1920)

Today, energy constitutes the backbone of economy, and as for oil, it constitutes the backbone of the energy as well. Oil, which shows its effect all the time for human life and for international affairs in an unquestionable way, has become the most suitable substance that can be turned into power and money interms of political and military aims. The struggles for oil, clearly reveals the truth of this assertion. So, the Armenian settlement policy, carried out deliberately by the Russians with the support of foreign powers from the very outset of 1918, has resulted in the occupation of Azerbaijan territory which occured rather as a consequence of oil-centered political and economic accounts. In this article, it is discussed the division of Azerbaijan territory and its subsequent occupation on account of struggle for oil primarily by Russia and other imperialist quarters and their support to Armenians for this cause in the era of first established Muslim-Turkish Azerbaijan Republic.