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Talaat Paşa
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Turkish Ottoman politician (1874–1921)
Talaat Paşa was a prominent Ottoman politician who lived from 1874 to 1921 and played a significant role in late Ottoman governance during a period of major political transformation. He is a historically significant but controversial figure whose legacy remains important to understanding early 20th-century Middle Eastern and Turkish history.
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Key facts
- Monarchs
- Mehmed V , Mehmed VI
- Preceded by
- Said Halim Pasha
- Succeeded by
- Ahmed Izzet Pasha
- Grand vizier
- Himself, Said Halim Pasha
- Constituency
- Adrianople ( 1908 , 1912 , 1914 )
- Born
- ( 1874-09-01 ) 1 September 1874, Kırcaali , Ottoman Empire ( now Bulgaria )
- Died
- 15 March 1921 (1921-03-15) (aged 46), Berlin , Germany
- Cause of death
- Gunshot wound
- Resting place
- Monument of Liberty, Istanbul
- Party
- Union and Progress Party
- Spouse
- Hayriye Talat Bafralı
- Conviction
- Premeditated mass murder
- Trial
- Ottoman Special Military Tribunal
- Criminal penalty
- Death ( in absentia )
- Target
- Ottoman Armenians
- Killed
- Around 1 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- Three Pashas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ottoman Empire
- Place of birth
- Kardzhali
- Place of death
- Berlin
- Occupation
- grand vizier
- Political party
- Committee of Union and Progress
- Languages spoken
- medieval Greek
- Religion
- Islam
- Participant in
- 1913 Ottoman coup d'état
- Image
- Talat Pasha.jpg
- Convicted of
- murder
- Significant event
- Armenian Genocide
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- Commons category
- Talaat Pasha
- killed by
- Soghomon Tehlirian
- date of birth
- 1874-09-01
- date of death
- 1921-03-15
- manner of death
- homicide
- name in native language
- Bozi Txa
- place of burial
- Monument of Liberty, Istanbul
- cause of death
- assassination
- penalty
- capital punishment
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Talaat Paşa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.