[2] During World War I Nuri was assigned to the army branch in Eastern Anatolia where he was injured.
[2] Following this incident Nuri left the army and joined the Russian forces in February 1917.
[2] He was elected a member of the council for action and propaganda at Congress of the Peoples of the East in Baku in 1920.
[5] He served in the military-revolutionary committee and participated in the Third World Congress of the Comintern as a delegate which was held in Moscow in June to July 1921.
[1] Nuri was appointed people's commissar for justice in the first Armenian Bolshevik government of the Soviet Armenia.
[2] He was arrested by Turkish security forces while he was trying to enter Azerbaijan and was tried and sentenced to imprisonment.