The Issue of the Independence of the Peoples of the Caucasus in the Journal Yeni Kafkasya

Abstract

Yeni Kafkasya [The New Caucasus] is the journal of the Azerbaijani emigrant press organ in Türkiye and has always held onto the idea of independence and unity of the peoples of the Caucasus. The main purposes of the magazine were to inform readers about the negative impacts of the Bolshevik occupation and to promote the unity of the peoples of the Caucasus and the idea of “the Caucasus House” in the struggle for independence against Bolshevism. The published papers, news articles, and poems were aimed at influencing Turkish public opinion, with the general idea being widely propagated that the Bolshevik government in the Caucasus could be ended as a result of unifying the peoples living there. Studies have shown the papers, news articles, and poems published in Yeni Kafkasya to have been one of the means by which the peoples of the Caucasus would not lose their ideas of independence and maintain their determination to fight on this path. Studies have also revealed the literature and the press to have been extremely important for the cooperation and integrity of the peoples of the Caucasus under modern conditions.