On July 5 , 1919 , the court reached a verdict which sentenced the organizers of the massacres , Talat , Enver , Cemal and others to death . The military court found that it was the intent of the CUP to eliminate the Armenians physically , via its Special Organization . The pronouncement reads as follows : The Court Martial taking into consideration the above-named crimes declares , unanimously , the culpability as principal factors of these crimes the fugitives Talaat Pasha , former Grand Vizir , Enver Efendi , former War Minister , struck off the register of the Imperial Army , Cemal Efendi , former Navy Minister , struck off too from the Imperial Army , and Dr. Nazim Efendi , former Minister of Education , members of the General Council of the Union & Progress , representing the moral person of that party ; ... the Court Martial pronounces , in accordance with said stipulations of the Law the death penalty against Talaat , Enver , Cemal , and Dr. Nazim . The courts-martial officially disbanded the CUP and confiscated its assets and the assets of those found guilty . Two of the three Pashas who fled were later assassinated by Armenian vigilantes during Operation Nemesis
Operation Nemesis
Operation Nemesis
Turkish courts-martial of 1919–1920