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Mehmed Talaat (1 September 1874 – 15 March 1921), commonly known as Talaat Pasha or Talat Pasha, was an Ottoman Young Turk activist, politician, and convicted war criminal who served as the de facto leader of the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1918.
On 15 March 1921, Armenian student Soghomon Tehlirian assassinated Talaat Pasha —former grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire and the main architect of the Armenian genocide —in Berlin. At his trial, Tehlirian argued, "I have killed a man, but I am not a murderer"; [1] the jury acquitted him.
Talat Paşa (born 1874, Edirne, Ottoman Empire [now in Turkey]—died March 15, 1921, Berlin, Ger.) was a leader of the Young Turks, an Ottoman statesman, grand vizier (1917–18), and a leading member of the Ottoman government from 1913 to 1918.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 24, 2018 · Talaat Pasha, the chief instigator of the Armenian genocide, died at the hands of an assassin in 1921 in Berlin, where he was living in hiding under a false name.
- Sévane Garibian
- 2018
Learn about the life and role of Talaat Pasha, the leader of the Young Turk regime that orchestrated the deportation and killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. Find out how he escaped justice, was assassinated by an Armenian, and was buried in Istanbul.
Jan 11, 2020 · In this impressive contribution, Hans-Lukas Kieser focuses on Mehmed Talaat (Talaat Pasha), casting him as the primary organizer of wartime atrocities against the Armenians, Assyrians, and Rûm (Greek Orthodox subjects within the Ottoman Empire).
A first father of modern Turkey before Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, and the driving force of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) during the war, Talat organized the removal of Armenian and other Christian citizens to secure exclusive Turkish power in Asia Minor.
