Bahattin Şakir

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Bahattin Şakir
The graves of Bahaeddin Şakir and Cemal Azmi in the Turkish Cemetery in Berlin

Bahattin Şakir ( Ottoman بهاء الدین شاکر, * 1874 in Istanbul ; † April 17, 1922 in Berlin , Germany ) was a founding member of the Committee for Unity and Progress , head of Teşkilât-ı Mahsusa and co-organizer of the genocide of the Armenians , the Aramaeans and the persecution of the Greeks .

Bahattin Şakir was born in Thrace and studied medicine at the Military Medical Academy in Istanbul. He soon got to know Doctor Nazim .

At the end of the First World War he and other committee members were arrested, first by the Ottoman military justice system, then by the British government. He was transferred to Malta , where he was charged by military courts with crimes against humanity , but never convicted, and then fled to Berlin.

In the autumn of 1919, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), part of the Armenian Fedayeen , decided to kill the leading figures in the Armenian genocide . Bahattin Şakir was murdered together with Cemal Azmi by Aram Yerganian in Berlin on April 17, 1922 as part of the secret operation Nemesis .

Individual evidence

  1. Sermet Koç, Ümit Biçer, Adli Tıbbın Tarihsel Gelişimi, Türkiye'deki Yapılanması ve Sorunları , Klinik Gelişim, Cilt 22, Adli Tıp Özel Sayısı, 2009 (PDF; 213 kB)
  2. ^ Two 'Young Turks' Murdered in Berlin. The New York Times , April 19, 1922, accessed May 25, 2013 .