"You saw Talaat and you did not avenge your mother's, father's, brothers' and sisters' murders? You are no longer my son."
Soghomon Tehlirian · 1921
Tehlirian's testimony at his Berlin trial (2–3 June 1921), describing a recurring vision of his murdered mother that he said preceded his decision to assassinate Talaat Pasha. The defence rested in large part on the psychiatric framing of these visions; the jury acquitted.