Assassination of Talat Pasha

When

15 Mar 1921

Kind

Assassination

Deaths

1

Coordinates

52.51° N, 13.33° E

Description

event

1921 assassination in Berlin, Germany

On 15 March 1921, Armenian student Soghomon Tehlirian killed 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"; the jury acquitted him.

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