CUP accused him of being involved into the murder of the former Ottoman Grand Vizier Mahmut Shevket Pasha. He was sentenced to death in absentia in June 1913. failed assassination attempt on him in 1914. World War I 1914-1918 In an article in The New York Times dated October 10, 1915, Şerif Pasha condemned the massacres on Armenians and declared that the Young Turk government had the intentions of "exterminating" the Armenians for a long time. Sherif Pasha remained in Monte Carlo throughout the Great War. In 1918, death sentence he was issued in June 1913, was overturned by the Government of Tevfik Pasha. Post World War I 1919-1920 Sherif officially defected from the Ottoman side, and was elected president of the Kurdish delegation at the Paris Peace Conference by the Society for the Elevation of Kurdistan (Kürdistan Teali Cemiyeti) and as well at the Treaty of Sèvres. He reached an agreement with the Armenian delegation headed by Boghos Nubar in Paris which involved the division of eastern Anatolia between a Kurdish and Armenian state. In this agreement Van and Bitlis both fell within Armenia, and so there was a hostile response from many Kurdish leaders in those region who had no wish to be a part of Armenia. Paris was subsequently bombarded with telegrams from the region condemning the accords. Emin Ali Bedir Khan demanded his resignation from his post as a representative of the Kurds to which he then also agreed to. Leader of the Kurdish nation in exile 1920-1951 After the failure of the Kurdish movement to achieve autonomy or independence for Kurdistan, Sherif Pasha remained in exile until his death. He moved to Cairo, where he had a property, which he received through the marriage with a member of the Khedivian family, Emine Halim, an aunt to King Faruk. In 1927 his daughter Melek Hanim was born in Monticiano, Siena. In the mid-1930s he lived in Monte Carlo, from where he attempted to gain support for the Kurdish cause from Benito Mussolini. He continued to lobby for an independent Kurdistan, during World War II he was in contact with British, Italian and German governments. Death and legacy Sherif died of a heart attack on the 22nd of December 1951 in his last place of exile Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy. He is known as the father of the Kurdish nation and his hand drawn map of Kurdistan presented