 They reached an agreement on 27 August whereby Germany was to receive a quarter of Baku's oil production.The German government requested that the Ottoman Empire delay any offensive into Azerbaijan; Enver Pasha ignored this request.In May, on the Persian Front, a military mission under Nuri Pasha, brother of Enver Pasha, settled in Tabriz to organize the Islamic Army of the Caucasus to fight not only Armenians but also the Bolsheviks.