A military court in Turkey accused Djemal of persecuting Arab subjects of the Empire and sentenced him to death '' in absentia '' . Later in 1920 , Djemal went to Central Asia , where he worked on modernising the Afghan army . Due to the success of the Bolshevik Revolution , Djemal travelled to Tiflis to act as a military liaison officer to negotiate over Afghanistan with the Soviets . Together with his secretary , he was assassinated on 21 July 1922 by Stepan Dzaghigian , Artashes Gevorgyan , and Petros Ter Poghosyan , as part of Operation Nemesis , in retribution for his role in the Armenian Genocide and the First World War . Djemal 's remains were brought to Erzurum and buried there
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Djemal Pasha