Person

Soghomon Tehlirian

Told a Berlin court he survived the 1915 massacre at Erzincan; shot Talaat Pasha dead in Berlin in 1921 and was acquitted by a German jury.

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Trial of Soghomon Tehlirian

1921 Acquitted by Berlin: of killing Talaat Pasha 1 2The jury answered the question put to it, whether he was guilty of intentionally killing Talaat Pasha, in the negative.

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Berlin 1921 of killing Talaat Pasha Scholarship & press 1 2
The jury answered the question put to it, whether he was guilty of intentionally killing Talaat Pasha, in the negative.

Assassination of Talaat Pasha shot him; tried for it and acquitted Primary record 1 3
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.
Trial of Soghomon Tehlirian, Berlin 1921 the defendant, acquitted Scholarship & press 1

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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
The defendant is acquitted at the expense of the state treasury.
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.
Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin (ed. Donna-Lee Frieze), Yale University Press, 2013 (full text at the Internet Archive), 2013. Scholarship & press
Tehlirian, who upheld the moral order of mankind, was classified as insane, incapable of discerning the moral nature of his act.
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.

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