Assassination of Djemal Pasha (Tiflis)
Operation Nemesis assassination of Djemal Pasha in Tiflis on 21 July 1922. Djemal, one of the Young Turk triumvirs and wartime ruler of Syria, was killed by Armenian militants with two aides.
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Account
Background
Djemal Pasha was the third member of the Young Turk triumvirate with Talaat and Enver. During the war he ruled Greater Syria, where Armenian deportees passed through camps, hunger and further killing.
Assassination and afterlife
On 21 July 1922 Petros Ter-Poghosian and Stepan Dzaghigian shot Djemal and two aides in Tiflis. The killing was part of ARF Operation Nemesis. It closed one arc of the campaign and reflected the geography of postwar exile, where former Ottoman officials and Armenian militants moved through the same Caucasian cities.
As with other Nemesis actions, the moral force came from failed law. The assassins killed men widely understood by Armenians as responsible for state mass murder, but they did so outside judicial process editorial.