Mehmet Talaat Pasha was one of the leaders of the Young person-Turks, an Othoman statesman , top dog and principal member of the Sublime Door 1913 with 1918.

He is the principal organizer of the Armenian genocide. The order of " is allotted to him; to kill all the Armenian men, women and children without exception".

Youths

Mehmet Talat, born with Kircaali (Province of Edirne) in 1874, was the son of an important member of the Othoman army. Its position in the company enabled him to receive a high level education. It was graduate College of Edirne. It joined the team of the company of telegraph of Edirne, but it is soon stopped in 1893 for subversive political activities. It was actively implied in the resistance movement against the despotic mode of the Sultan Abdülhamid II. Slackened two years later, it was indicated secretary chief of the stations and telegraphs with Thessalonique and rendered important services to the cause of the Young person-Turks. Between 1898 and 1908, it was factor at the Post office of Thessalonique, before being the director about it.

Implication with the Young person-Turks and the events of 1915

In 1908, it was banished to have been member of the Comité of Union and Progress (core of the movement of the Young person-Turks). After the revolution of the Young person-Turks in 1908, however, it became Député of Edirne to the Othoman Parlement, and in July 1909, it was named Minister of Interior Department. He became Ministre for the Stations, then general secretary of the Comité of Union and Progress in 1912.

After the assassination of the Prime Minister Mahmut Şevket Pasha in July 1913, Talat Pasha became again Minister of Interior Department. Talat, with Enver Pasha and Djemal Pasha, formed a group called the Three Pashas . These three men became the effective leaders of the Othoman government since this moment until the end of the war in October 1918.

Talat, as a Minister of Interior Department, is very responsible for the Déportation Armenians since the provinces of the East towards the Syria. The majority of the historians blame it for the cruelty of this act and deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. (See Armenian genocide). Although Talat was Minister of Interior Department, much of historians support that Enver Pasha deserves an equivalent blame for the Déportation of the Armenians.

In 1917, Talat became Top dog, but it was unable to turn over the downward spiral of Othoman fortunes in its new position.

Talat the freemason

Talat was the first worthy Master-in-pulpit (or chair) big room of Turkey. It began the Franc-maçonnerie in 1903, with Thessalonique, in the cabin of the Macedonia Risorta , with the members of its party. One year later, it will pass to the cabin Veritas and will occupy the post of second supervisor there.

In 1909, it goes up to the 33e degree and takes the head of the Scottish Rite old and accepted. It takes at this time places among the founders of the cabin of the fatherland at Istanbul. Its functions with the cabin will oblige it to leave its title of Top dog in 1910.

During its Mandate of Top dog, he answered thus the insults directed against him:
… One shows me to be a mason. Yes, I am mason. I accepted freemasonry for the happiness of humanity, just like I embraced the Bektachi EMS as a nationalist way of choice…

End of the war

During the following year, Jerusalem and Baghdad were lost, and in October 1918, the English break the two armies which they faced. With the unquestionable defeat, Talat resigned the October 14th 1918. One week later, the Othoman government capitulated with the Alliés and signed a Armistice in the island of Mudros.

One week later, Talat Pasha, Enver Pasha and Djemal Pasha fled towards Berlin. These two last would have died towards the end of 1922. Talat was killed by a Armenian terrorist called Soghomon Tehlirian the March 15th 1921 for its role supposed in the extermination of Armenians in its village.

It was buried with the Turkish Cimetière of Berlin. In 1943, its remainders were taken along to Istanbul and were buried with Şişli. Its Mémoires of war was published after its death.

Anecdote

The Armenians call wrongly it the Turkish Hitler .

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