The prominent leaders and ideologists included : The founder of modern Turkey , Mustafa Kemal Atatürk , is quoted on the front page of the 1 August 1926 '' The Los Angeles Examiner '' as denouncing the Young Turks and especially the CUP ( the " Young Turk Party " ) : As to the fate of the Three Pashas , two of them , Talaat Pasha and Djemal Pasha , were assassinated by Armenian nationals shortly after the end of World War I while in exile in Europe during Operation Nemesis , a revenge operation against perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide . Soghomon Tehlirian , whose family was killed in the Armenian Genocide , assassinated the exiled Talaat Pasha in Berlin and was subsequently acquitted by a German jury . Djemal Pasha was similarly killed by Stepan Dzaghikian , Bedros Der Boghosian , and Ardashes Kevorkian for " crimes against humanity " in Tbilisi , Georgia . The third pasha , Enver Pasha , was killed in fighting against the Red Army unit under the command of Hakob Melkumian near Baldzhuan in Tajikistan ( then Turkistan )
Operation Nemesis
Operation Nemesis
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