Soghomon Tehlirian
Soghomon Tehlirian (also spelled Soromon Tehlerjan , Armenian Սողոմոն Թեհլերեան ; * April 2, 1897 in Pakaritsch near Erzincan ; † May 23, 1960 in San Francisco ) was an Armenian who was mainly affected by his assassination attempt on the former Turkish interior minister Talât Pasha became known.
Tehlirian had lost his family of 85 people in the genocide of the Armenians during the First World War . On March 15, 1921, on Hardenbergstrasse in Berlin-Charlottenburg , he shot and killed the former Ottoman Minister of the Interior, Talât Pascha, who is considered to be one of the main people responsible for the Armenian genocide and was therefore sentenced to death in absentia. To avoid extradition to the Allies as a war criminal, Tâlat Pascha fled to Berlin after the war with German help. In the following process in Berlin spoke jury Tehlirian as "not guilty" freely . The medical expert was the neurologist and psychiatrist Richard Cassirer . Tehlirian acted on behalf of the secret Armenian command Operation Nemesis , which persecuted and killed the perpetrators of the genocide of the Armenians in the form of vigilante justice, since Germany refused to extradite the convicted war criminals of the Young Turkish triumvirate .
In the 1950s Tehlirian emigrated to the USA. Tehlirian died of a brain hemorrhage in San Francisco in 1960. He is buried in the Ararat Cemetery in Fresno (California).
literature
- Armin T. Wegner : The Talaat Pascha Trial - Stenographic Report , Berlin 1921
- Tessa Hofmann : The genocide of the Armenians in court - the Talaat Pascha trial , Göttingen 1980 (new edition of Wegner's work)
- Rolf Hosfeld : Operation Nemesis: Turkey, Germany and the Armenian Genocide , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2005 ISBN 3-462-03468-5 .
- Selef Ünal: The Trial of Salomon Teilirian - The Talaat Pasha Assassination (Berlin, June 2-3, 1921) . Self-published, Ankara, 2008
- Tim Neshitov: The eagle . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 90 of April 20, 2015, p. 3.
Web links
- CV in French
- The detailed court record of the trial in English translation
- Press review from 1921 on the assassination attempt and trial
- Shorthand report on the trial against Salomon Teilirian, June 1921
- Operation Nemesis
- “Execution on the Street,” 2015 documentary directed by Bernard George.
- Soghomon Tehlirian Monument
- Operation Nemesis: Soghomon Tehlirian and the murder of Talat Pasha
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Soghomon Tehlirian and the genocide - 94 years ago: The avenger of Armenia killed in Berlin . The daily mirror . April 20, 2015. Retrieved June 19, 2015
- ↑ The murder on Hardenbergstrasse . Berlin newspaper . March 23, 2015. Accessed June 19, 2015
- ↑ a b Execution in the open street ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Arte . April 28, 2015
- ^ Rolf Hosfeld : An unwilling genocide trial . Retrieved June 19, 2015
- ↑ The amazing story of the team of assassins who sought to avenge the Armenian genocide , Business Insider, 25. April 2015. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
- ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/weltspiegel/sonntag/soghomon-tehlirian-und-der-voelkermord-der-raecher-von-armenien-toetete-in-berlin/11653472-all.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tehlirian, Soghomon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Teilirian, Soghomon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Armenian assassin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pakaritsch at Erzincan |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1960 |
| Place of death | San Francisco |