Hafız Mehmet ( 1874 – 14 June 1926 ) was a Turkish politician and the Minister of Justice for the Republic of Turkey . While serving as a deputy in Trabzon , he was a witness to the Armenian Genocide . His testimony of the event is considered by genocide scholar Vahakn Dadrian as one of the " rarest corroborations of the fact of the complicity of governmental officials in the organization of the mass murder of Armenians " . He was sentenced to death after the Izmir trials of 1926 , charged with attempting to assassinate Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Hafız Mehmet