Armenian congress at Erzurum
The Armenian congress at Erzurum ( the 8th World Congress of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation ) , held from the end of July to August 2 , 1914 , was a watershed event where representatives of the ruling Committee of Union and Progress party requested the Armenian Revolutionary Federation ( the leading Armenian party in both the Ottoman and the Russian Empire ) to incite a rebellion of Russian Armenians against the Tsarist regime in order to facilitate the conquest of Transcaucasia in the event of the opening up of a Caucasus front . 
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