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Assassination of Talaat Pasha

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The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/March 15, 2022 by Wehwalt (talk) 18:01, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Courtroom during the trial of Soghomon Tehlirian
Courtroom during the trial of Soghomon Tehlirian

On 15 March 1921, Armenian student Soghomon Tehlirian assassinated Talaat Pasha, a leading Ottoman politician and the main architect of the Armenian genocide, in Berlin. About 1 million Armenians died in the genocide, including most of Tehlirian's family. He joined a clandestine assassination campaign seeking revenge. Tehlirian's trial was held 2–3 June 1921, and the defense strategy was to put Talaat on trial for the Armenian genocide. Several eyewitnesses to the genocide testified, resulting in "one of the most spectacular trials of the twentieth century". Tehlirian claimed he had acted alone, telling a dramatic, but untrue, story of witnessing the deaths of his family members. He argued, "I have killed a man, but I am not a murderer", and the jury acquitted him. International news coverage brought attention to the facts of the Armenian genocide. Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin was inspired to create the crime of genocide in international law. (Full article...)