Career
After the Armistice of Mudros, he led the First Congress of Ardahan, establishing a local administration, and was later declared the head of the Southwest Caucasian National Resistance Government on 5 November 1918. This movement took control of the cities of Kars, Ardahan, and Batum in late 1918. In the Second Congress of Ardahan, held between 7 and 9 January 1919, Cihangirzade Ibrahim Bey was elected as the First President of the Provisional National Government of the Southwestern Caucasus.
Cihangirzade worked for the recognition of the republic and the independence of its territory.
After his return from Malta, he served as mayor of Kars between 1921-1927. He died in 1948. A cenotaph to his memory was erected in Kars in 2003 and a municipal park in the city carries his name.
