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Soghomon Tehlirian

Armenian revolutionary who killed Talaat Pasha in Berlin.

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A cerebral hemorrhage caused Tehlirian's death in 1960; his final resting place is Fresno, California's Ararat Cemetery.[1]

Key facts and history

Tehlirian lost 85 family members to the Armenian Genocide, including his mother, three sisters, two brothers, and a two-year-old niece.[2] The jury took slightly over an hour to render a verdict of "not guilty"[3] At his trial, Tehlirian stated that he felt no guilt because his conscience was untroubled.[3] After the killing, Tehlirian resided in Cleveland, then Marseille, then Yugoslavia, and ultimately wed Anahit Tatikian.[4]

What the cited sources add

The Independent reported in 2016 that Tehlirian's son stated his father's mother and older brother died in the genocide, but that Tehlirian did not have a sister.[5][6] The same source notes that Tehlirian's son changed his family name to distance himself from history and from Turks who regard his father as a "terrorist"[5] The Armenian Genocide Museum-institute states that Tehlirian moved to the Caucasus and joined the Armenian voluntary detachment of Andranik.[7] The Armenian Genocide Museum-institute states that Tehlirian's case was instrumental in urging Raphael Lemkin to coin the word "genocide" in 1944.[7]

The Armenian Weekly reported in 2017 that a public square in Marseille, France, was given Tehlirian's name.[8][9]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Soghomon Tehlirian" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Milestones", June 6, 1960 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Soghomon Tehlirian" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Cummins, "History's Great Untold Stories: Larger than Life Characters & Dramatic Events that Changed the World", National Geographic, 2006, p. 301; Tehlirian, Recollections, p. 8. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Soghomon Tehlirian" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Vartabedian, "Commemoration of an Assassin: Representing the Armenian Genocide", University of North Carolina, 2007, p. 7 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Soghomon Tehlirian" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Fisk, Robert, "My conversation with the son of Soghomon Tehlirian, the man who assassinated the organiser of the Armenian genocide", The Independent, June 20, 2016; "Along Armenian Footsteps in Serbia", Armenian Weekly, July 8, 2009; Fisk, Robert, "My conversation with the son of Soghomon Tehlirian, the man who assassinated the organiser of the Armenian genocide", The Independent, June 20, 2016 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Fisk, Robert, "My conversation with the son of Soghomon Tehlirian, the man who assassinated the organiser of the Armenian genocide", The Independent, June 20, 2016. facts only, no text reused. independent.co.uk
  6. Wikipedia, "Soghomon Tehlirian" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Fisk, Robert, "My conversation with the son of Soghomon Tehlirian, the man who assassinated the organiser of the Armenian genocide", The Independent, June 20, 2016 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  7. "AGMI received rare photos of Soghomon Tehlirian", The Armenian Genocide Museum-institute. facts only, no text reused. genocide-museum.am
  8. "The Official Inauguration of Soghomon Tehlirian Square to Take Place in Marseille", Armenian Weekly, April 13, 2017. facts only, no text reused. armenianweekly.com
  9. Wikipedia, "Soghomon Tehlirian" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "The Official Inauguration of Soghomon Tehlirian Square to Take Place in Marseille", Armenian Weekly, April 13, 2017 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Soghomon Tehlirian (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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