 The battle was related with great spirit and the defeat of the Ottoman army by the Russian forces.In accounting the Russians for the defeat of an army nearly 40,000 Ottoman forces of all arms by a hostile force of less than one-half that number, it is not sufficient to say that the management of the whole battle on the side of the Turks was a series of blunders from the first to last, strategical errors might have protracted the mission and have added to the cost of a victory.Four months after the battle of Kurekdere no military operations took place.