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Assassination of Talaat Pasha

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/March 15, 2022 by Wehwalt (talk) 18:01, 5 February 2022 (UTC)



On 15 March 1921, Armenian student Soghomon Tehlirian assassinated Talaat Pasha, a leading Ottoman politician and the main architect of the Armenian genocide, in Berlin. About 1 million Armenians died in the genocide, including most of Tehlirian's family. He joined a clandestine assassination campaign seeking revenge. Tehlirian's trial was held 2–3 June 1921, and the defense strategy was to put Talaat on trial for the Armenian genocide. Several eyewitnesses to the genocide testified, resulting in "one of the most spectacular trials of the twentieth century". Tehlirian claimed he had acted alone, telling a dramatic, but untrue, story of witnessing the deaths of his family members. He argued, "I have killed a man, but I am not a murderer", and the jury acquitted him. International news coverage brought attention to the facts of the Armenian genocide. Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin was inspired to create the crime of genocide in international law.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Possibly Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic in November
 * Main editors: Buidhe
 * Promoted: June 2021
 * Reasons for nomination: 101st anniversary of the assassination. Thanks Gog for the blurb, I made some edits to it.
 * Support as nominator. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  23:32, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Support, first class article—informative and ready. The nomination anniversary rationale seems sound as well. Aza24 (talk) 01:51, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Support: Perhaps bold the article title in the blurb, but I trust you will. – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 17:54, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ (t &#183; c)  buidhe  18:02, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
 * On another read; "1 million Armenians died in the genocide" : Perhaps, avoid starting sentence with an arabic numeral. And is the 1 million figure exact of approximate? – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 13:07, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Approximate, clarified. (t &#183; c)  buidhe  18:16, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Support. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:26, 23 January 2022 (UTC)