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Tala'at's Execution
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A gripping work of historical investigation, this book recounts the dramatic pursuit of Tala'at Pasha after his escape from postwar justice. As the architects of the Armenian Genocide found protection abroad and powerful interests maneuvered behind the scenes, one man refused to let the verdicts of history be ignored. Shahan Natalie, survivor of earlier massacres and mastermind of Operation Nemesis, organized the covert mission that would bring Tala'at to account. Blending political intrigue, hidden alliances, and the desperate struggle for Armenian survival, this book offers a bold and controversial account of justice pursued when nations failed to act.
Following World War I, while held in pre-trial detention by the British on the island of Malta, Tala'at Pasha (1874-1921), the leader of the Young Turks and the former Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, along with others facing charges of war crimes, including the systematic murders of the Armenian people (internationally recognized today as The Armenian Genocide), were secretly released.
Tala'at., and 6 others, including Ismail Enver Pasha (1881-?), the former Ottoman Minister of War, and Ahmed Djemal Pasha (1872-1922), a top military official and the former Governor of Ottoman Syria, all later tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in absentia by an Ottoman Court Tribunal, boarded the German torpedo boat Lorelei on the night of November 1, 1918, heading to Berlin, Germany.
For over 2 years, the Young Turks planned their return to power, receiving protection of the German government and direct political and material support from New York bankers and businessmen, including Jacob H. Schiff, and J.P. Morgan, who had great influence over the United States military and government, and had originally brought the Young Turks to power in 1908, in order to depose the Sultan and destabilize the Ottoman Empire from within.
The New York bankers who were behind the Coup d’etat were especially interested in the untapped minerals found in Armenia. In 1907, they had ordered a survey of the Armenian territories which revealed that Armenia had approximately 1/6th of the worlds accessible oil supply, as well as agricultural yield that could feed 10 times more people than the native population. This fight had Europe and the United States vying for mineral concessions from the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, who for years had been entertaining offer.
Shahan Natalie (1884-1983), was born Hagop Der Hagopian, in the village of Husenik, in the Kharpert region of Western Armenia. At the age of 11, his father and a dozen family members were murdered during the Hamidian massacres of 1895. When Tala'at and the Young Turks escaped from Malta and it became clear that the death sentence they had been handed down to them by the Ottoman military court were not going to be carried out because of the powerful forces behind them, and even the Armenians in power of the newly independent Armenia were secretly courting Tala'at in order to remain in power, Natalie, the President of the Armenian Diaspora Writers Union, became the driving force behind the task of eliminating the biggest threat humanity and to the Armenian people. He was the creator, mastermind, and leader of the execution team that would eventually be tasked by official orders from the Armenian Ambassador to the United States, Dr. Garegin Pastermadjian (1872-1923), of carrying out the Ottoman court issued death sentences, as well as legal executions under the 1907 Hague Convention Laws of War.
In the pages that follow, Natalie, chronicles the most accurate non-fiction account of the hunt and successful execution of Tala'at Pasha, by a rag-tag motley crew Natalie had cobbled together of mostly unwilling Armenian-German recruits, who he lied to, telling them the work was a top secret operation ordered by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), when in fact at their 9th General Assembly in Yerevan, Armenia, in 1919, the discussion of the operation was tabled, was be revisited at their 10th assembly.
Under the most unfavorable conditions, Natalie’s team terminated Tala'at Pasha, which had they failed, the country of Armenia would most likely have been wiped off the face of the Earth, and Tala'at would have taken his predestine seat as the founder of “Modern” Turkey, rather than Mustafa Kemal (1881-1938), former Ottoman field marshal, who was also a convicted war criminal, sentenced to death, and whom is famously known as Atatürk, the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, who served as its first president from 1923 until his untimely death in 1938.
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