Reshid Akif Pasha is known for providing important testimony on the Armenian Genocide during a session of the Ottoman parliament on 21 November 1918 . Akif Pasha stated that during his short tenure as the president of the Council of State , he uncovered documents pertaining to the deportation of Armenians . The documents displayed the process in which official statements made use of vague terminology when ordering deportation only to be clarified by special orders ordering " massacres " sent directly from the Committee of Union and Progress headquarters or often the residence of Talat Pasha himself
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Reshid Akif Pasha