Yakub Cemil

Ottoman revolutionary

Yakub Cemil (1883–1916) was an Ottoman revolutionary and soldier who assassinated Nazım Pasha during the 1913 Ottoman coup d'état.^[1]

During the Caucasus campaign, troops under the command of Cemil carried out some of the first major massacres of Armenians.^[2]

In 1916, he was arrested, sentenced to death, and executed.^[3]

References

1. Tansu, Samih Nafiz. "İttihat ve Terakki, Ya Devlet Başa, Ya Kuzgun Leşe" (in Turkish).
2. Badem 2019, pp. 47, 59.
3. "ExecutedToday.com » committee of union and progress".

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.