2018/04/03 by Sévane Garibian · 3 citations
Social Sciences · Psychology · Medicine · #Turkey's Politics and Society #Islamic Studies and History #Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts #Pasha #Poison control #Psychoanalysis #Psychology #Medical emergency #Medicine #Ancient history #History
paper · doi:10.1080/14623528.2018.1459160
published in Journal of Genocide Research 20(2), 220-235 (Taylor & Francis)
openalex publication_date 2018/04/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Talaat Pasha, the chief instigator of the Armenian genocide, died at the hands of an assassin in 1921 in Berlin, where he was living in hiding under a false name. His killer, the survivor and avenger of the genocide, Soghomon Tehlirian, sought to use his own trial as a platform to condemn the acts of the murderer of his people – a murderer who had already been sentenced to death in absentia in his own country by a court martial in Constantinople. This perpetrator now lies in a mausoleum built in memory of the “heroes of the fatherland” on the hill of the Monument of Liberty alongside his erstwhile Minister of War, Enver Pasha, in the very heart of Istanbul. This chapter aims to shed light on the link between the perpetrator’s violent end, the treatment of his remains, and the negationist policy which is still in place in Turkey.