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Yakub Cemil
Personal details
Born1883
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Died11 September 1916 (aged 32/33)
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Political partyCommittee of Union and Progress

Yakub Cemil (1883–1916) was an Ottoman revolutionary and soldier who assassinated Nazım Pasha during the 1913 Ottoman coup d'état.

During the Caucasus campaign, troops under the command of Cemil carried out some of the first major massacres of Armenians.

In 1916, he was arrested, sentenced to death, and executed.

References

  1. Tansu, Samih Nafiz. "İttihat ve Terakki, Ya Devlet Başa, Ya Kuzgun Leşe" (in Turkish).
  2. Badem 2019, pp. 47, 59.
  3. "ExecutedToday.com » committee of union and progress". 11 September 2019.

Sources

  • Badem, Candan (2019). "The War at The Caucasus Front: A Matrix for Genocide". The End of the Ottomans: The Genocide of 1915 and the Politics of Turkish Nationalism. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 47–66. ISBN 978-1-78831-241-7.
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