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Trial of Soghomon Tehlirian, Berlin 1921

A Berlin jury tried Talaat Pasha's killer in 1921; survivors and German experts described the deportations in court, and the jury acquitted him.

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1921
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Berlin

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  • Soghomon Tehlirian the defendant, acquitted Scholarship & press 1
  • Christine Terzibashian witness Scholarship & press 2
  • Krikoris Balakian witness Scholarship & press 2
  • Johannes Lepsius expert witness Scholarship & press 2
  • Deir ez-Zor where Balakian's group was marched Scholarship & press 2
  • Talaat Pasha the defence offered telegrams attributed to him and withdrew the motion; their authenticity is disputed Scholarship & press 23

    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. 1921 Trial of Soghomon Tehlirian, Berlin 1921
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  1. 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.
    Is the defendant Soghomon Tehlirian guilty of having intentionally killed Talaat Pasha on Charlottenburgstrasse on March 15, 1921?
  2. 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
    My immediate family consisted of twenty-one persons, only three of whom survived.
    If we only killed the men, he replied, and not the women and children, then, 50 years from now, we would have a couple million Armenians.
    Just before the war, the Armenians in Turkey numbered 1,850,000.
    During the forced march to Deir-ez-Zor, we went through villages and cities where countless Armenians gave up their lives
    The telegrams prove that Talaat personally gave the orders to massacre alt the Armenians including women and children.
  3. 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.
  4. Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin (ed. Donna-Lee Frieze), Yale University Press, 2013 (full text at the Internet Archive), 2013. Scholarship & press
    His trial became, in actuality, a trial of the Turkish perpetrators.
    I didn't know all the answers but I felt that a law against this type of racial or religious murder must be adopted by the world.
    The court in Berlin acquitted Tehlirian.
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