On 13 October 1918 , Talaat Pasha and the rest of the CUP ministry resigned , and the Armistice of Mudros was signed aboard a British battleship in the Aegean Sea at the end of the month . The Turkish Courts-Martial of 1919 – 20 took place where the leadership of the Committee of Union and Progress and selected former officials were court-martialled under charges of subversion of the constitution , wartime profiteering , and the massacres of both Armenians and Greeks . The court reached a verdict which sentenced the organizers of the massacres , Talat , Enver , Cemal and others to death . On 2 November , the Three Pashas ( Talaat , Enver , and Djemal ) escaped from Constantinople into exile
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Armenian Genocide
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