GIBRAHAYER
e-magazine
Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:52:16 -0800
84 years ago…
One of the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide - Talaat Pasha - was shot dead in Berlin 84 years ago on March 15, 1921 by Soghomon Tehlirian.
The telegrams signed by Talaat proved the responsibility of the Turks for the Genocide, which until today is denied by successive Turkish governments. Talaat Pasha in his absence was sentenced to death as a military criminal by the Military Tribunal in Constantinople in 1919.
As part of the ARF Dashnaktsoutiun's "Operation Nemesis" Armenian volunteers tracked and gunned-down many of the escaped criminals in Europe and Central Asia and served them justice, since the courts had failed to do so. Among the assassinated were Talaat Pasha, Enver Pasha, Gemal-Pasha, Gemal Azmi and Beahaddin Shakir.
In 1920 Tehlirian followed the runaway Talaat from Paris to Germany and shot him down in Berlin-Sharlotenburg in Gardenberstrasse.
Tehlirian, who had readily accepted his responsibility for the assassination, was acquitted by the German court.
He later lived in the USA, married and had a daughter and a son. He died in 1960, in the age of 64.
In 1943 the Nazis returned Talaat's remains to Turkey, where he was buried with great honours in a grand ceremony.
In a rally marking the 84-th anniversary of the day Talaat Pasha was assassinated, a rally was held in Yerevan last week. The organisers of the meeting – the youth wing of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsoutiun - called the international community to unite and recognize the Armenian Genocide, not admitting Turkey to “the EU with bloody hands.” A young representative of the organisation handed the European Commission Secretary a letter addressed to the EU Chairman. After the completion of the rally the demonstrators made their way to the monument of Soghomon Tehlirian in Yerevan, where they laid 90 flowers.
e-magazine
Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:52:16 -0800
84 years ago…
One of the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide - Talaat Pasha - was shot dead in Berlin 84 years ago on March 15, 1921 by Soghomon Tehlirian.
The telegrams signed by Talaat proved the responsibility of the Turks for the Genocide, which until today is denied by successive Turkish governments. Talaat Pasha in his absence was sentenced to death as a military criminal by the Military Tribunal in Constantinople in 1919. As part of the ARF Dashnaktsoutiun's "Operation Nemesis" Armenian volunteers tracked and gunned-down many of the escaped criminals in Europe and Central Asia and served them justice, since the courts had failed to do so. Among the assassinated were Talaat Pasha, Enver Pasha, Gemal-Pasha, Gemal Azmi and Beahaddin Shakir.
In 1920 Tehlirian followed the runaway Talaat from Paris to Germany and shot him down in Berlin-Sharlotenburg in Gardenberstrasse.
Tehlirian, who had readily accepted his responsibility for the assassination, was acquitted by the German court.He later lived in the USA, married and had a daughter and a son. He died in 1960, in the age of 64.
In 1943 the Nazis returned Talaat's remains to Turkey, where he was buried with great honours in a grand ceremony.
In a rally marking the 84-th anniversary of the day Talaat Pasha was assassinated, a rally was held in Yerevan last week. The organisers of the meeting – the youth wing of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsoutiun - called the international community to unite and recognize the Armenian Genocide, not admitting Turkey to “the EU with bloody hands.” A young representative of the organisation handed the European Commission Secretary a letter addressed to the EU Chairman. After the completion of the rally the demonstrators made their way to the monument of Soghomon Tehlirian in Yerevan, where they laid 90 flowers.
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