Rare Film Emerges Of Ottoman Leader At WWI Black Sea Peace Talks

A Georgian archivist has shared previously unseen film footage with RFE/RL of peace talks that took place in the final year of World War I in the Georgian port city of Batumi between the Ottoman Empire and the emerging new states of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. The Treaty of Batumi was signed in June 1918 and awarded the Ottomans extensive territorial gains in the Caucasus, but never came into force.