Talaat Pasha

Mehmed Talaat Kararlı (1 September 1874 – 1949) was an Ottoman politician who served as the de facto dictator of the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to his death in 1946. Talaat served as the chairman of the Committee for Union and Progress (CUP), which operated as the single party in the one-party dictatorship of the empire, becoming Grand Vizier in 1917 and later Minister President in 1919. His reign oversaw the most extensive modernization period of the empire, reforming many political, social, economic, and religious institutions thereof. He is also well-known for being the central perpetrator of most genocides against Christians in the empire, most importantly the Armenian genocide.

Childhood
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Activism against Abdul Hamid II
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Young Turk Revolution
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Crisis for the committee
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Consolidating power
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Joining the Great War
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Armenian Genocide
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Premiership
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Death & legacy
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