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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)ittee of Union and Progress]], which Ottoman Empire could thereby receive more lenient treatment at the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919|Paris peace conference]]<ref>Vahakn N. Dadrian, "The Documentation of the World War I Armenian Massacres in the Proceedings of the Turkish Military Tribunal," International Journal of Middle East Studies 23(1991): 554; idem, "The Turkish Military Tribunal's Prosecution of the Authors of the Armenian Genocide: Four Major Court-Martial Series," 
[[Holocaust and Genocide Studies]], 11(1997): 31.</ref>;  that could be achieved. The local court-martial were establishing while the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919]] with "The Commission on Responsibilities and Sanctions", were adding several articles to the treaty demanding the acting government of the [[Ottoman Empire]], Sultan [[Mehmed VI]] and [[Damat Ferid Pasha]], should be summoned to trial.

===Structure===
===Legal Issues===
(contracted; show full)rom 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==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Ottoman Empire]]