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{{Armenian Genocide}}
'''Turkish Courts-Martial of 1919-1920''' were [[courts-martial]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]] after the [[armistice of Mudros]] during the  [[Aftermath of World War I|aftermath]] the [[World War One]], which the leadership of the [[Committee of Union and Progress]] and selected former officials were court-martialled with/including the charges of [[Subversion (politics)|subversion]] of the constitution, wartime [[profiteering]], and the massacres of both [[Po(contracted; show full)

==Aftermath==
===Outcomes===
The article which were proposed to be added at the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919]] under "The Commission on Responsibilities and Sanctions" demanding the acting government of the [[Ottoman Empire]], Sultan [[Mehmed VI]] and [[Damat Ferid Pasha]], should be summoned to trial, was not included in the [[Treaty of Sèvres]]. Interestingly, [[Damat Ferid Pasha]] was one of the four signatories.

===The International Trials===
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There exists the notion that "international" trials - in essence, trials organized by the [[Allies]] - either took place in [[Malta]] or were otherwise planned but not executed.  Historian [[Peter Balakian]], however, pointTribunals]]}}
Malta Tribunals are the much publicized otherwise planned but not executed "international" trials outf that in reality [[Malta]] was never more than a [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]] prison where various [[CUP]] officials were held in the hopes that suche Malta exiles. Under the pretext of "international trials" administrators and "international" trial would be held at a future date.  It is held by some [[Armenian Genocide]] denialists that trials actually took place here and the "fact" that no evidence from the Turkish Military Tribunals was used by the court is proof of the said evidence's inadequacy and/or illegitimacy.  In reality, however, no trial was everllectuals of the Ottoman Empire were sent into exile on Malta after the armistice of Mudros during the Occupation of İstanbul by the Allied forces. It become a British prison where various CUP officials were held andin the prisoners were soon released in return for [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]] [[POWs]]hopes that such an "international" trial would be held at a future date.

===Operation Nemesis===
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The Ottoman military tribunal and subsequent international trials, which the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]] dismissed, exonerated those the [[Armenian Revolutionary Federation]] perceived as the masterminds behind the [[Great Calamity]]. At the [[Armenian Revolutionary Federation]]'s 9th General Congress, which convened in [[Yerevan]] from September 27 to the end of October 1919, the issue of retribution against those responsible was on the agenda. A task force, led by [[Shahan Natalie]], working with [[Grigor Merjanov]], was established to assassinate [[Talaat Pasha]], [[Pipit Jivanshir Khan]], [[Said Halim Pasha]], [[Behaeddin Shakir|Behaeddin Shakir Bey]], [[Jemal Azmi]], [[Cemal Pasha]], [[Enver Pasha]], as well as several Armenian traitors.

==See also==
*[[Armenian Genocide]]

==References==
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[[Category:Ottoman Empire]]