Cherkes Ahmet ( died September 6 , 1915 ) was the leader of Ottoman Turkey 's state-sponsored paramilitary marauders of supposedly Circassian origin during World War I. Cherkes Ahmet was from Serres , Macedonia . He was notoriously responsible for the murder of the well-known Armenian writer , literary critic and politician Krikor Zohrab and politician Vartkes Serengülian during the Armenian Genocide . Ahmet , along with fellow murderers Halil and Nazim , were tried and executed in Damascus by Djemal Pasha in September 1915 . The assassinations became the subject of a 1916 investigation by the Ottoman Parliament led by Artin Boshgezenian , the deputy for Aleppo
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Cherkes Ahmet