The CUP members were court-martialled during the Turkish courts-martial of 1919 – 20 with charges of subversion of the constitution , wartime profiteering , and the massacres of both Greeks and Armenians . The courts-martial became a stage for political battles . The trials helped the LU root out the CUP from the political arena . The fall of the CUP allowed the Palace to regain the initiative once again , though only for less than a year . The British also rounded up a number of members of the Imperial Government and interned them in Malta , only for them to be exchanged in the future for British POWs without further trial . Sir Gough-Calthorpe included only members of the Government of Tevfik Pasha and the military/political personalities
Armenians
Armenian Genocide
Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire