Organization
Special Organization
Ottoman irregular force that the 1919 court-martial charged with carrying out attacks on Armenians; the Holocaust Memorial Museum says the party enforced its instructions through it.
- Also known as
- Teskilat-i Mahsusa
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members
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Bahaeddin Sakir
named by the indictment as one of its officials
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The 1919 indictment names him with Nazim, Atif and Riza; it also says he was based at Erzurum and commanded its forces in the eastern provinces.
involved in
- Deportations and killings of Ottoman Armenians, 1915 to 1916 enforced the party's instructions, the museum says; the 1919 indictment charged it with attacks in Erzurum province Scholarship & press 12
part of
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Committee of Union and Progress
According to Ottoman court-martial of 1919
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The indictment's charge, in the translation of Vahakn Dadrian; it is an accusation of the 1919 court, which sentenced the party's leaders.
Proof 2 sources
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Indictment of the Turkish Military Tribunal, 1919 (excerpts translated by Vahakn N. Dadrian), Armenian National Institute, 1919.
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the officials of the Special Organization were Central Committee members Messrs. Dr. Behaeddin Sakir, Dr. Nazim, Atif and Riza
The July 15, 1915 cipher telegram of Governor Mr. Tahsin attesting to the criminal attacks and atrocities against the Armenians in the localities of Erzurum province by the Special Organization and by some gendarmes attached to it.
in its involvement with the task of destruction the Special Organization [maintained] ties with the Cemiyet
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The Armenian Genocide (1915-16): In Depth, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Encyclopedia.
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At the center of the operation were: Talât Pasa (minister of interior), Ismail Enver Pasa (minister of war), Baheddin Sakir (field director for the Special Organization), and Mehmed Nâzim (leader of demographic planning).
The CUP issued instructions from Constantinople and ensured enforcement through agents in its Special Organization and local administrations.
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