Russia s Policy of the Red Sea and the Activities of Colonialism on Djibouti

When one says Russia , it comes to mind to descend to the sea and to capture the straits. Even if Russia had faced off against the Ottoman Empire a lot of times on this issue, it had not attained more except for some restricted acquisitions. This situation belongs to the resistance the Ottoman Empire had shown as much as the European States were disturbed by this. However, there are some enterprises that Russians tried to extend to Africa. One of them is the initiative of a Russian general named “Ashinov who is originally Kazakh based. Even though Ashinov did not find a support directly from the government wing, he was curiously welcomed by the Russian Orthodox Church, certain traders and some politicians. With this support he got, Ashinov had a chance to settle the area which was in the notion of Ottoman Empire at that time and which is now Djibouti territory, in the East Africa. With the clergy men, women and children they had taken along, they had tried to establish a colony in the strict sense. With the success of this attempt, they had tried to make the Russian Orthodox Church powerful establishing an influence on the Ethiopian clergy. Against this imagination and following activities, it may be alluded that Tsar and Russian government had supported Ashinov even if they did not be in a promotive position. In case of the success probability of the enterprise of Ashinov, it seemed possible to arrive in Russian agenda. However, in the context of the failure of action, the attitude of Ashinov and the international relations, the necessity that Russia and France felt with each other caused the failure of Ashinov s movement. This article tries to reveal how such an attempt ,also applied to the Ottoman Empire, is met by the Ottoman Empire