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The assassination of Talat Pasha by Armenian student Soghomon Tehlirian took place on 15 March 1921 in Berlin. Talat Pasha was a former grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire and the main architect of the Armenian genocide. Tehlirian had lost most of his family in the genocide and joined Operation Nemesis, a clandestine assassination campaign to avenge it. Tehlirian's trial was held 2–3 June 1921, and the defense strategy was to put Talat on trial for the Armenian genocide. Extensive evidence on this was heard from several eyewitnesses, resulting in "one of the most spectacular trials of the twentieth century". Tehlirian claimed he had acted alone, telling a dramatic, but untrue, story of witnessing the deaths of his family members. He argued, "I have killed a man, but I am not a murderer", and the jury acquitted him. The international media reported widely on the trial, bringing attention to the facts of the Armenian genocide. Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin was inspired to create the crime of genocide in international law. (Full article...)
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Hi Buidhe and congratulations. A draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits from you or from anyone else interested are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:25, 12 June 2021 (UTC)