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September 1, 1874 - Talaat Pasha

As the dominant figure in the Ottoman triumvirate during World War I, he wielded the administrative machinery of a wartime empire to orchestrate the systematic deportation and mass killing of Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks — campaigns now widely recognized as genocide. His effectiveness derived from his position as Interior Minister and later Grand Vizier, which gave him direct control over the security forces, provincial governors, and deportation orders that drove these policies. He fled after the Ottoman defeat in 1918 and was convicted in absentia by an Ottoman court-martial before being assassinated in Berlin by Soghomon Tehlirian, a survivor of the Armenian Genocide, in 1921.

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Talaat Pasha

Mehmed Talât Pasha (1 September 1874 – 15 March 1921), commonly known as Talaat Pasha or Talat Pasha, was a Turkish activist, revolutionary, politician, and convicted war criminal who served as the de facto leader of the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1918. He was chairman of the Union and Progress Party, which operated a one-party dictatorship in the Empire; during World War I he became Grand Vizier (prime minister). He has been called the architect of the Armenian genocide, and was responsible for other ethnic cleansings during his time as Minister of Interior Affairs.

Talaat was an early member of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), eventually leading its Salonica chapter during the Hamidian era. After the CUP succeeded in restoring the constitution and parliament in the 1908 Young Turk Revolution, he was elected as a deputy from Adrianople to the Chamber of Deputies and later became Minister of the Interior. He played an important role in the downfall of Sultan Abdul Hamid II the next year during the 31 March Incident by organizing a counter government. Multiple crises in the Empire including the 31 March Incident, attacks on Rumelian Muslims in the Balkan Wars, and the power struggle with the Freedom and Accord Party made Talaat and the Unionists disillusioned with multicultural Ottomanism and political pluralism, turning them into hard-line authoritarian Turkish nationalists.

In 1913, Talaat and Ismail Enver carried out a coup d'état with Mahmud Şevket Pasha as a reluctant partner.

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