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| |  | | Ismail Enver Pasha | | | context : | Armenian genocide  | | judgement place : | Ottoman empire | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Sentenced to death in absentia by an Ottoman Tribunal | | position : | War Minister |
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| | | | In November 1918, Enver Pasha fled to Germany on board the Lorelei, accompanied by Djemal Pasha and Talat Pasha.
On 2 November 1918, at the very same moment that Enver Pasha was fleeing from Istanbul Members of Parliament were debating a motion to take up proceedings against Enver Pasha and six other leaders who were on the run. Amongst the charges being brought were those related to the massacres of the Armenians. More precisely, the Ministers implicated were accused of having created “gangs of thugs, whose threats to life, infringement of property rights and slurs on personal honour, rendered these same Ministers guilty of complicity in the resultant tragic crimes”.
After the dissolution of parliament by the Sultan on 21 December 1918, the jurisdiction to try the Ministers in question was set up as a Court Martial. By imperial decree the statutes of a new Court Martial were pronounced on 8 March 1919. It was this court which was to judge the accused that had fled into exile.
To this end, the court ordered the seven top leaders of the Young Turk regime, including Enver Pasha, to appear before the court within ten days, failing which they would be judged in absentia.
With regard to the charges being pressed, these were widened little by little to include, notably “the massacre and destruction of the Armenians”. The accusation was, in effect, that the Ottoman leaders had formulated a vast plan with this as its final goal.
The Court issued its verdict on 5 July 1919. The accused were found guilty of orchestrating Turkey’s entry into the First World War and of having committed massacres against the Armenians.
Enver Pasha was sentenced to death in absentia.
After fleeing into exile in Germany, Enver Pasha made contact with German army officers in order to continue the war in Central Asia against the United Kingdom. He joined the Basmachi revolt in Central Asia in 1921. He was killed in action by the Red Army on August 4, 1922 in Tajikistan. | |     click for more... | | Trial Watch would like to remind its users that any person charged by national or international authorities is presumed innocent until proven guilty. | |  |  | | nationality : | | | Turkey | | | date of birth : | | | 22.11.1881 | | | judgement period : | | | 03.1918 | | | charges : | | | Other | | | profile last modified : | | | 21.12.2009 |
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