Talat Paşa

Talat Paşa

▪ Turkish statesman
in full  Mehmed Talat Paşa 
born 1874, Edirne, Ottoman Empire [now in Turkey]
died March 15, 1921, Berlin, Ger.

      leader of the Young Turks, Ottoman statesman, grand vizier (1917–18), and leading member of the Ottoman government from 1913 to 1918.

      The son of a minor Ottoman official, Talat joined the staff of the telegraph company in Edirne, but he was soon arrested (1893) for subversive political activity. Released two years later, he was appointed chief secretary of posts and telegraphs in Salonika (modern Thessaloníki, Greece) and rendered important services to the Young Turk cause. In 1908 he was dismissed for being a member of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), the conspiratorial nucleus of the Young Turk movement. After the Young Turk Revolution of 1908, however, he became deputy for Edirne in the Ottoman Parliament, and in 1909 he was appointed minister of the interior. He became minister of post and then the secretary-general of the CUP (1912).

      Before the outbreak of World War I, Talat sided with the Allied powers. In 1914, however, under the influence of Enver Paşa, minister of war and one of the triumvirate, the Ottoman Empire entered the war on the side of Germany. Talat, as minister of the interior, had to take responsibility for the deportation of the Armenians (Armenian massacres) from the empire's eastern provinces, open to Russian influence, to Syria and Mesopotamia; some historians blame him for the barbarity of the operation, which resulted in the death of some 600,000 Armenians.

      In 1917 he became the grand vizier; he resigned on Oct. 14, 1918, shortly before the Ottoman capitulation to the Allies. In November, together with Enver Paşa and Cemal Paşa, he fled to Germany, where he was killed by an Armenian three years later.

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