Friday, February 24, 2006

ArmeniaNow.com - Hero/Terrorist: Turks plan demonstrations to counter Armenian version of Talaat Pasha

"Hero/Terrorist: Turks plan demonstrations to counter Armenian version of Talaat Pasha
By Aris Ghazinyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Eighty-five years ago, on March 15, 1921, Armenian avenger Soghomon Tehleryan shot dead in Berlin the former general chairman of the Young Turks party, interior minister, Grand Vizier of Turkey Mehmet Talaat Pasha.

One of the main culprits responsible for the annihilation of 1.5 million Armenians and developer of the plan of Genocide, who said that “only one Armenian must be preserved in the world, and that as an exhibit in a museum” was hiding in the German capital not only from the punishment of Armenian avengers, but also from the War Tribunal that sentenced him to death in July 1919. The future founder of the Turkish Republic Mustafa Kemal still then accused the leaders of the Young Turks of trammeling the country into World War One and exterminating Armenians. Talaat-pasha was hiding in Berlin under another person’s passport and lived at a secret address. He was tracked down by Armenian avengers on January 28, 1921 at a Berlin railway station and was shot dead in the street on March 15."

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