Before World War I , the Karin dialect was spoken by the local Armenian populations in much of the Erzurum Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire and Kars Oblast of the Russian Empire . After the Armenian Genocide of 1915 , most of Erzurum 's Armenian population took refuge to the Russian-controlled parts of Armenia . The city of Kars and its Russian '' oblast '' became part of the First Republic of Armenia in 1918 , but was occupied by Kemalist Turkey as a result of the Turkish – Armenian War in fall 1920
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Karin dialect