YEREVAN, March 16. /ARKA/. Armenia marked 85th anniversary of action of retaliation committed by Soghomon Teyleryan in 1921 in Berlin against the then Ottoman Empire’s Home minister Talaat-Pasha, who was one of the 1915 Armenian Genocide masterminds. Dashnaktsuthun Armenian party board member and MP Armen Rustamyan said at the ceremony dedicated to this event that nowadays the retaliation act hasn’t lost its significance. It is remarkable, he said, that the patriot was acquitted by German count and his victim, in fact, remains convicted forever. Talaat killing was one of Nemesis operation’s actions, which showed that punishment of those implicated in genocide shouldn’t be considered as crime, Rustamyan said.
He condemned Turkey’s attempts to use today’s worldwide struggle against terrorism for tarnishing Teyleryan’s reputation saying his retaliation action has nothing in common with those inhuman acts pursuing obscure goals. “Teyleryan’s goal was kind, just and true. And the court proved it”, the MP said.
Armenian student Soghomon Teyleryan shot down Ottoman Empire’s Home minister Talaat-Pasha in Berlin on March 15, 1921. Talaat-Pash was among those Ottoman Empire’s top officials having their part in orchestrating the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Later Teyleryan was acquitted by Berlin court’s jurors.
The killing was designed by Dashnaktsutyun party as part of a series of operations called Nemesis. Under the Dashnaktsutyun-worked out scheme, Ottoman Empire Home Minister Talaat-Pasha, former PM Said Halim, former Trapezund governor Jemal Azmi, special organization leader Behaetdin Shakir and former Naval Forces Minister Jemal-Pasha have been killed.
Besides, former Turkish Military Minister Enver-Paha who headed counter-soviet movement in Turkistan in 20s, was killed by Russian Red Army commander of Armenian descent Yakov Melkumov.
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