Chechnya O’zxia xm-3 talabasi Mirzohidov Ulug’bekning xalqaro mintaqashunoslik fa’nidan tayyorlagan taqdimoti Background of Chechen

Chechnya

O’zXIA XM-3 talabasi Mirzohidov Ulug’bekning xalqaro mintaqashunoslik fa’nidan tayyorlagan taqdimoti

Background of Chechen

• Chechnya is located in between Black Sea and Caspian Sea in East European part.

• Become part of Russian empire after conquered in 1861.
• Citizen in that place is named Chechens ethnic or Vainakhs (which means"our people" in Chechen) from Nakh people family. Vainakhs people group also can found in

Ingushetia state.

• Majority people whose lived in Chechen are Muslim and they speak Nakh language and at the same time can speak Russian language
• Chechen status now is autonomy state and not become independent state until now.
• Natural resources had in Chechen are

TURCO-PERSION-RUSION CONFLICT

• Ottoman and Safavid Empires fought for influence over the Caucasus
• The rivalry was between Sunni and Shia Islam and the regional conflict

of the two empires.

• Relations with Russia was seen as a possible balance to the Ottoman and Safavid Empires, and a pro-Russian camp in Chechen
• In reality, the most favored empire from the beginning was the Ottoman Empire, but that did not mean the Chechens were not wary of a potential Ottoman attempt at conquering them.
• A positive hope toward Russia relations ended in the early 19th centuries when tensions with the Cossacks escalated and Russia began trying to conquer the Caucasus, starting with Georgia.

After this point, many Chechens sealed, forever, their preference towards Istanbul against Estafan and Moscow by converting to Islam in an attempt to win the sympathy of the Ottomans

However, they were too late- the Ottoman Empire was already well into its period of decline and collapse,
ottoman empire = not longer willing to assist Muslims especially newly converted people, (viewed as "less Muslim“)

• Hence, the rivalry between Turkey and Persia became abstract and meaningless as the threat of conquest by Russia and being pushed out of their lands or even annihilated or killed by the Cossacks grew