Organization

Committee of Union and Progress

Ottoman political party, also called the Young Turks; its leaders ran the government from 1913.

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Deportations and killings of Ottoman Armenians, 1915 to 1916 the party that controlled the government Scholarship & press 2

Special Organization According to Ottoman court-martial of 1919 Scholarship & press 3
The indictment's charge, in the translation of Vahakn Dadrian; it is an accusation of the 1919 court, which sentenced the party's leaders.

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Verdict ("Kararname") of the Turkish Military Tribunal, 5 July 1919, Armenian National Institute (English translation by Haigazn K. Kazarian, Armenian Review, 1971), 5 Jul 1919. Primary record
are the members of its General Assembly, the fugitives -- Prime Minister Talaat Pasha and Minister of War Enver Effendi
The Armenian Genocide (1915-16): In Depth, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Encyclopedia. Scholarship & press
Following several years of political upheaval, CUP leaders seized dictatorial power in a coup on January 23, 1913.
The government, controlled by the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP; also called the Young Turks)
Indictment of the Turkish Military Tribunal, 1919 (excerpts translated by Vahakn N. Dadrian), Armenian National Institute, 1919. Scholarship & press
in its involvement with the task of destruction the Special Organization [maintained] ties with the Cemiyet

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