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Baku Offensive ...

The Baku Offensive was the final and only successful offensive the Ottoman Empire carried out in World War I. The offensive was a result of the Russian Revolution and Enver Pasha's determination to create a Turkic state in the Caucasus in the midst of the turmoil. The United Kingdom and Germany were alarmed by this unprecedented operation and both sent expeditionary forces to the Caucasus to stop the Ottomans from taking the oil rich Baku region. However both failed to do so as the numerically superior Ottoman forces defeated them in Baku and Georgia respectively.