Genocides. In 1921, Feyzi escaped with 15 fellow prisoners, returned to Turkey, and joined the Kemalists. Later in life, Feyzi was a facilitator of massacres and forced resettlements of the Kurdish people. Talat Pasha Talat Pasha, who is widely considered the mastermind of the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek Genocides, fled to the Weimar Republic in November 1918. An Ottoman Special Military Tribunal tried, convicted, and sentenced Talat to death in absentia for subverting the Constitution, war profiteering, and organizing Genocide against Ottoman Greeks and Armenians. On March 15, 1921, Talat was assassinated in Berlin by Soghomon Tehlirian as part of Operation Nemesis, a worldwide plan by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation to hunt down and liquidate all surviving perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide. After a two-day trial, a German court found Tehlirian not guilty of murder by reason of temporary insanity, and released him. As efforts to prosecute the Genocide's perpetrators had ceased by this time, Tehlirian is considered a national hero by Armenians. Legacy According to Donald Attwater, "During the massacres by Turks and Kurds in the war of 1914-1918, the Catholic Armenians lost seven bishops, over one hundred priests, forty-five nuns, and thirty-thousand lay folk; over eight hundred ecclesiastical buildings and schools were pillaged and destroyed, and a dozen dioceses laid waste. Moreover, the formation of a Soviet Socialist Republic in Russian Armenia cut off an indeterminate number of Catholics from their fellows. A conference of Armenian bishops at Rome in 1928 reorganized their Church in view of these events and of the conditions now obtaining." Since 1928, the Armenian Catholic Archeparchy of Istanbul, based at St. Mary of Sakızağaç Cathedral, has spiritually looked after all Catholic Armenians who remain living in the Turkish Republic and who, as of 2008, numbered only 3,650. Archbishop Ignatius Maloyan was beatified in Saint Peter's Basilica by Pope John Paul II on October 7, 2001. In a sermon for the occasion, Pope John Paul said, The Vatican City State commemorated the centennial of Blessed Ignatius Maloyan's martyrdom with a postage stamp issued on the 2 September 2015. The Servant of God Fr. Leonard Melki, a Lebanese Capuchin priest who was deported in the same convoy and martyred at the Sheikhan Caves alongside Archbishop Maloyan, will be Beatified by Pope Francis in Beirut on 4 June 2022. See also Flavianus Michael Malke Notes External links "ՄԵԾ ԵՂԵՌՆԻ ՆԱՀԱՏԱԿ ԻԳՆԱՏԻՈՍ ԱՐՔ. ՄԱԼՈՅԱՆ (Archbishop Ignatius Maloyan,