Battle of Armenia (21st Century Crisis)

The Battle of Armenia (Russian: Битва за Армению, Armenian: Ճակատամարտ Հայաստանի, German: Schlacht von Armenien, Turkish: Ermenistan Savaşı) codenamed Operation Young Turk (Turkish: Genç Türk Operasyonu) was fought as part of the Ottoman Empire's own attempted invasion of the Soviet Union.

Seeing Hitler's early success in the opening days of Operation Barbarossa, Sultan Abdulmejid II used it as an oppurtunity to launch his own conquest of the Soviet Union, targetting the resource-rich Armenian SSR and Georgian SSR. Also, Abdulmejid II wanted to instigate a Second Armenian Genocide, which he called "The Armenian Solution" (Turkish: Ermeni Çözüm).

The Ottoman Empire was one of the powers of World War II, and Abdulmejid II felt that he no longer needed to follow Nazi Germany or Hitler's orders. He therefored, ordered three battalions, consisting of 1,300,422 men and 3,000 tanks to move into the Armenian SSR. The Ottomans destroyed entire towns and villages, however knowing of the previous Armenian Genocide, the Armenian Soviet citizens fought the Ottomans, even unarmed.

The news of the invasion angered Adolf Hitler to death, this provoked Sultan Abdulmejid II to declare war against Germany. Hitler nearly contemplated on forging a new allyship with the Soviet Union. Hitler expelled the Ottoman Empire from the Tripartite Pact. The Ottoman forces therefore carried out the "purge" of Germans from Turkey, killing all German soldiers in Turkey and destroying all German bases in Turkey.

Hitler was therefored, forced to withdraw some of his valuable men and equipment from German-occupied parts of the Soviet Union, and re-deploy them into Turkey and the Armenian SSR.

This battle stood out as being unique, due the rare cooperation between the Soviet Red Army and the German Wehrmacht. Both the Germans and Soviets armed Armenian paramilitary groups to fight the invading Turks. During the entire battle, both the Red Army and the Wehrmacht were so pre-occupied with fighting the Ottomans, that they had forgotten their own war against each other.

The cooperation got to a point, where Red Army and Wehrmacht leaders were cooperating on how to mutiliate Ottoman POWs.