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Talaat Paşa
Mehmed Talât Pasha, 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. He has been called the architect…
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politics · Turkish Ottoman politician (1874–1921) · politician · grand vizier · also Talaat Paşa, Talaat Pasha, Talat Pasha, Mehmed Talât, Mehmed Talaat Pasha, Mehmed Talaat
Born 1 September 1874 · Died 15 March 1921 · Q315888
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2025· 2 entries
News: Memorial to Armenian Genocide architect Talaat Pasha unveiled in Ankara
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2021· 2 entries
PanARMENIAN.Net: Paphos’ Talaat Pasha street renamed at the request of Armenian community
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Cyprus Mail: Paphos’ Talaat Pasha street renamed following objections
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2018· 1 entry
Foreign Affairs: Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide
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2014· 1 entry
PanARMENIAN.Net: Soghomon Tehlirian assassinated Talaat Pasha on March 15, 1921
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1922· 1 entry
The Kemalist government rescinded Talaat's conviction, and then a house and a martyr's pension was granted to Talaat's family with a law passed by the Grand National Assembly in 1926
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1921· 7 entries
Died 1921-03-15.
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“The Turkish elements here referred to were shortsighted, fanatical, and yet sincere in their belief. The public encouraged them, and they had the general approval behind them. They were numerous and strong.”
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By Soghomon Tehlirian, a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, as part of Operation Nemesis
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“What on earth do you want? The question is settled. There are no more Armenians.”
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“We need to tranquilize our neighbors. State officials ought to remain in ignorance. Let the Armenians wait, opportunities will certainly come our way too. Turkey belongs only to the Turks.”
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“I have accomplished more toward solving the Armenian problem in three months than Abdul Hamid accomplished in thirty years!”
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“These different blocs in the Turkish Empire...always conspired against Turkey; because of the hostility of these native peoples, Turkey has lost province after province - Greece, Serbia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Egypt, and Tripoli. In this way, the Turkish Empire has dwindled almost to nothing.”
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1920· 1 entry
Hayriye joined Talaat in Berlin in spring 1920 and returned to Turkey after her husband's killing.
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1918· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Cross of Liberty (1918).
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1917· 1 entry
Career landmark: grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1917–1918).
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1915· 1 entry
“our Armenian policy is absolutely fixed and that nothing can change it. We will not have the Armenians anywhere in Anatolia. They can live in the desert but nowhere else.”
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1913· 2 entries
Career landmark: Ottoman Secretary of the Interior (1913–1917).
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Talaat and Ismail Enver carried out a coup d'état with Mahmud Şevket Pasha as a reluctant partner
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1911· 1 entry
That they were not able to have children, but they adopted an orphan, Münevver, as their daughter
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1909· 1 entry
While she was studying in the French girls' Lycée Notre Dame de Sion in Constantinople
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1903· 1 entry
Talaat Pasha was a member of the Bektashi order and a 33° freemason and first became a member of the Salonica Freemason Lodge Macedonia Risorta in 1903 during his time in the Ottoman Balkans.
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1896· 1 entry
Was imprisoned for having been part of a CUP cell together with his brother-in-law
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1895· 1 entry
Talaat married Hayriye Hanım (1895–1983) (later known as Hayriye Talat Bafralı), an Albanian girl from Yanya (Ioannina) on 19 March 1910.
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1874· 2 entries
Born 1874-09-01.
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In Kırcaali, Adrianople (Edirne) Vilayet into a middle-class family of Romani, Turkish, and Pomak descent
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