Talaat Pasha (1874 to 1921) was an Ottoman politician and revolutionary, a leader of the Committee of Union and Progress who served as Minister of the Interior and became the de facto leader of the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1918, with the title of Grand Vizier from 1917. After the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 he helped bring down Sultan Abdul Hamid II, and in 1913 he took part in a coup, becoming the civilian head of the triumvirate known as the Three Pashas with Enver and Cemal. He helped bring the empire into the First World War. In 1915 he ordered the arrest of Armenian intellectuals and issued the Temporary Law of Deportation, and he is widely held responsible for the Armenian genocide. He fled in 1918, was sentenced to death in absentia, and was assassinated in Berlin in 1921.
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Kırcaali, Ottoman Empire (now Bulgaria)
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Turkish activist, revolutionary, politician, and convicted war criminal
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1 September 1874
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15 March 1921
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He has been called the architect of the Armenian genocide
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served as the de facto leader of the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1918
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At the orders of Talaat Pasha, an estimated 800,000 to 1.2 million Armenians were sent on death marches to the Syrian desert in 1915 and 1916.
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