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Talaat Pasha

1874 - 1921

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Mehmed Talât (1 September 1874 – 15 March 1921), commonly known as Talaat Pasha or Talat Pasha, was an Ottoman Young Turk activist, revolutionary, politician, and convicted war criminal who served as the de facto leader of the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1918. He was chairman of the Union and Progress Party, which operated a one-party dictatorship in the Empire; during World War I he became Grand Vizier (prime minister). He has been called the architect of the Armenian genocide, and was responsible for other ethnic cleansings during his time as Minister of Interior Affairs. Talaat was an early member of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), eventually leading its Salonica chapter during the Hamidian era. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Talaat Pasha is the 1,893rd most popular politician (down from 1,743rd in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Bulgaria (down from 16th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Bulgarian Politician.

Talaat Pasha was most famous for his role in the Armenian Genocide. He was a Turkish politician and one of the three members of the Young Turk triumvirate that ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1918.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Talaat Pasha ranks 1,893 out of 19,576. Before him are Carloman of Bavaria, Alexander Kolchak, Gustav, Prince of Vasa, Rodolfo Graziani, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium, and Cyrus I. After him are Alexander of Battenberg, Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Paul Doumer, Robert, Count of Clermont, Lucy Webb Hayes, and Meñli I Giray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Talaat Pasha ranks 25. Before him are António Egas Moniz, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Shackleton, August Krogh, Nikolai Berdyaev, and Alexander Kolchak. After him are G. K. Chesterton, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, D. F. Malan, Konstantin Päts, Antanas Smetona, and Nicholas Roerich. Among people deceased in 1921, Talaat Pasha ranks 13. Before him are Peter I of Serbia, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Alfred Hermann Fried, Ludwig III of Bavaria, and Carl Menger. After him are Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, `Abdu'l-Bahá, John Boyd Dunlop, Antoni Grabowski, Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, and Henrietta Swan Leavitt.

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In Bulgaria

Among people born in Bulgaria, Talaat Pasha ranks 18 out of 415. Before him are Boris III of Bulgaria (1894), Marcian (396), Diogenes of Apollonia (-460), Julia Kristeva (1941), Tiberius II Constantine (520), and Boris I of Bulgaria (828). After him are Kubrat (605), Saint Naum (830), Kaloyan of Bulgaria (1168), Hristo Stoichkov (1966), Tzvetan Todorov (1939), and Ratko Janev (1939).

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Among POLITICIANS In Bulgaria

Among politicians born in Bulgaria, Talaat Pasha ranks 12. Before him are Todor Zhivkov (1911), Simeon I of Bulgaria (864), Boris III of Bulgaria (1894), Marcian (396), Tiberius II Constantine (520), and Boris I of Bulgaria (828). After him are Kubrat (605), Kaloyan of Bulgaria (1168), Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria (1195), Rumen Radev (1963), Kiril, Prince of Preslav (1895), and Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria (1350).

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