Armenia: Soghomon Tehlirian (1896-1960), Armenian patriot and assassin of Talaat Pasha in 1921

Soghomon Tehlirian (Armenian: Սողոմոն Թեհլերեան (classical), Սողոմոն Թեհլերյան (reformed); April 2, 1896 – May 23, 1960) was an Armenian Genocide survivor who assassinated the former Ottoman Interior Minister Talaat Pasha in Berlin in the presence of many witnesses on March 15, 1921 as an act of vengeance for Talaat's role in orchestrating the Armenian Genocide during World War I.

It was a part of the Operation Nemesis by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation. Even before his assassination, Talaat Pasha had been convicted and sentenced to death in absentia by his own Ottoman Empire in the Turkish Courts-Martial of 1919–1920 for his crimes against the Armenians of the Empire (among other things). After a two-day trial Tehlirian was found not guilty by the German court and was freed.

Tehlirian is considered a national hero by Armenians.

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