Event

Assassination of Talaat Pasha

Soghomon Tehlirian shot Talaat Pasha dead in Berlin on 15 March 1921.

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Talaat Pasha shot dead Scholarship & press 1
Soghomon Tehlirian shot him; tried for it and acquitted Primary record 1 2
The prosecutor called it a political assassination. Turkey's foreign ministry says a secret network named Nemesis hunted down Talaat and others in 1921; that is the ministry's account.

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Trial of Soghomon Tehlirian, second day (1985 English translation of the German court record), Armeniapedia, a wiki reproducing The Case of Soghomon Tehlirian (Los Angeles, 1985), 1921. Scholarship & press
On March 15, 1921, the defendant shot and killed Talaat Pasha on Charlottenburgstrasse.
There is no question in my mind that what we are dealing with here is a political assassination.
Is the defendant Soghomon Tehlirian guilty of having intentionally killed Talaat Pasha on Charlottenburgstrasse on March 15, 1921?
The Armenian Allegation of Genocide: The Issue and the Facts, Republic of Turkiye Ministry of Foreign Affairs (via the Internet Archive). Primary record
In 1921, a secret Armenian network based in Boston, named Nemesis, took the law into its own hands and hunted down and assassinated former Ottoman Ministers Talaat Pasha and Jemal Pasha as well as other Ottoman officials.
Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin (ed. Donna-Lee Frieze), Yale University Press, 2013 (full text at the Internet Archive), 2013. Scholarship & press
Talaat Pasha took refuge in Berlin.

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