Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Gwamnatin Ottoman ta kasance ɓangare na Yarjejeniyar Brest-Litovsk da aka sanya hannu tsakanin gwamnatin Bolshevik na Rasha da Powerasashen Tsakiya a ranar 3 ga Maris, 1918; yarjejeniyar ta zama ba ta da amfani daga baya a wannan shekarar. Bolsheviks na Rasha da gwamnatin Soviet karkashin jagorancin Vladimir Lenin, wanda ya fito da nasara daga yakin basasar Rasha a shekarar 1921, sun kalli juyin juya halin Turkiyya (na kasa) a karkashin jagorancin Mustafa Kemal a matsayin abokantaka, kuma gwamnatin Lenin ta yi watsi da da'awar gargajiya na Daular Rasha zuwa yankunan Yammacin Armenia da Straits. Bayar da zinare da makamai na Soviet ga Kemalists a Yakin 'Yancin Turkiyya a cikin 1920-1922 ya kasance muhimmin mahimmanci a cikin nasarar da aka samu a cikin mulkin Ottoman da aka ci nasara.
ta hanyar Triple Entente da nasarar da suka samu a yakin Armeniya da yakin Girka-Turkiya (1919<unk>22).