Yakub Cemil

Yakub Cemil (1883–1916) was an Ottoman revolutionary and soldier who assassinated Nazım Pasha during the 1913 Ottoman coup d'état.[1] In 1916, he was arrested, sentenced to death, and executed.[2]

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

During the Caucasus campaign, troops under the command of Cemil carried out some of the first major massacres of Armenians.[3]

References

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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