Said Halim was accused of treason during the court martial trials after World War I in the Ottoman Empire , as he had his signature under Ottoman – German Alliance . He was exiled on 29 May 1919 to a prison on Malta . He was acquitted from the accusations and set free in 1921 , and he moved to Sicily . He wanted to return to the Istanbul , the capital of the Ottoman Empire , but this request was rejected . He was assassinated soon after in Rome by Arshavir Shirakian , an agent of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation , for his role in the Armenian Genocide
assassinated
Operation Nemesis
Said Halim Pasha