Historical rivals, Armenia, with a long history of blood feud with Turkey, after the war hunted down three enemies, the Three Pashas of the Young Turks.
The Armenian Genocide refers to the systematic genocide of Armenians living within its jurisdiction by the Ottoman Turkish government between 1915 and 1917. This action was initiated by the Committee of Union and Progress of the Ottoman Empire, through deportation (death marches), and coercing Armenian women and children to change their religion to implement the plan, resulting in the killing of millions.
Aftermath
Turkish Military Court
In 1919, Sultan Mehmed VI ordered his military court to investigate the members of the "Committee of Union and Progress" regarding their responsibility for World War I. The military court considered that the "Committee of Union and Progress" had waged a war inconsistent with the millet, and accused them of events related to Armenians. These trial records were later mostly transferred to the International Court. In January 1919, the trial report was submitted to Mehmed VI, listing more than 130 suspects, mostly high-ranking officials. The military court determined that the "Committee of Union and Progress" intentionally used the "Special Organization" to physically eliminate Armenians.
In 1919, the Constantinople Military Court ordered the dissolution of the "Committee of Union and Progress", sentenced the "Three Pashas" who were absent in absentia to death, and confiscated the assets of the convicted individuals.
All three Pashas fled abroad after the end of World War I. Talat and Djemal were later assassinated by Armenian revenge seekers, while Enver was killed by the Soviet Red Army while participating in the Basmachi movement in the Pamir Mountains. Interestingly, the Soviet Red Army general who killed Enver, Yakov Merkumov, happened to be an Armenian.
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