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Talaat Pasha

Ottoman interior minister and later grand vizier; shot dead in Berlin on 15 March 1921.

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Mehmed Talaat, Talat Pasha
Legal records
  1. 5 Jul 1919 Convicted by Ottoman court-martial of 1919: sentenced to death in absentia 12Sentenced with Enver, Djemal and Dr. Nazim. The court tried him for the crimes of the Committee of Union and Progress.

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  • Ottoman court-martial of 1919 5 Jul 1919 sentenced to death in absentia Primary record 12

    Sentenced with Enver, Djemal and Dr. Nazim. The court tried him for the crimes of the Committee of Union and Progress.

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  • Deportations and killings of Ottoman Armenians, 1915 to 1916 one of the four leaders the 1919 Ottoman court named as principal accused Primary record 13
  • Assassination of Talaat Pasha shot dead Scholarship & press 4
  • Trial of Soghomon Tehlirian, Berlin 1921 the defence offered telegrams attributed to him and withdrew the motion; their authenticity is disputed Scholarship & press 56

    The Berlin record shows the defence offering five telegrams said to come from Aleppo and then withdrawing the motion. Turkey's side lists Orel and Yuca's book against them; an Armenian-American newspaper reports the historian Taner Akcam answering their arguments. We read neither book.

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  1. 5 Jul 1919 Talaat Pasha convicted by Ottoman court-martial of 1919
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  1. 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
    Talaat, Enver, Djemal and Dr. Nazim are sentenced to death
    These verdicts have been rendered unanimously in absentia in the cases of Talaat, Enver, Djemal and Dr. Nazim
    are the members of its General Assembly, the fugitives -- Prime Minister Talaat Pasha and Minister of War Enver Effendi
  2. Armenians and Turks, chapter on the Ottoman courts-martial of 1919 (Tatul Hakobyan), aniarc.am, from Hakobyan's book. Scholarship & press
    On 5 July 1919, the court-martial delivered a verdict condemning Mehmet Talât, Ismail Enver, Ahmed Cemal, and Ahmed Nâzım to death in absentia
  3. Indictment of the Turkish Military Tribunal, 1919 (excerpts translated by Vahakn N. Dadrian), Armenian National Institute, 1919. Scholarship & press
    The massacre and destruction of the Armenians were the result of the decision-making by the Central Committee of Ittihad ve Terakki
  4. 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.
  5. Trial of Soghomon Tehlirian, first afternoon (1985 English translation of the German court record), Armeniapedia, a wiki reproducing The Case of Soghomon Tehlirian (Los Angeles, 1985), 1921. Scholarship & press
    The telegrams prove that Talaat personally gave the orders to massacre alt the Armenians including women and children.
  6. Akcam Confirms Authenticity of Andonian Papers in Explosive Talk about New Book, The Armenian Mirror-Spectator, 13 Oct 2016. Scholarship & press
    The Turkish “debunkers” used the discrepancies between the Andonian text and the Guerguerian material as proof that the documents are forged.
  7. Ambassador Morgenthau's Story, Doubleday, Page and Company (Project Gutenberg edition), 1918. Scholarship & press
    can be our friend after what we have done to them.
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