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Yakub Cemil | |
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Born | 1883 Istanbul, Ottoman Empire |
Died | 11 September 1916 (aged 32/33) Istanbul, Ottoman Empire |
Political party | Committee 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
- Tansu, Samih Nafiz. "İttihat ve Terakki, Ya Devlet Başa, Ya Kuzgun Leşe" (in Turkish).
- Badem 2019, pp. 47, 59.
- "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.
- 1883 births
- 1916 deaths
- 20th-century executions by the Ottoman Empire
- Armenian genocide perpetrators
- Military personnel from Istanbul
- Revolutionaries from the Ottoman Empire
- Turkish nationalist assassins
- Turkish revolutionaries
- Executed assassins
- Executed mass murderers
- Executed military personnel
- Executed revolutionaries
- Members of the Special Organization (Ottoman Empire)
- Ottoman military personnel killed in World War I
- People executed by the Ottoman Empire by firing squad