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Yakub Cemil
Personal details
Born	1883 Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Died	11 September 1916 (aged 32/33) Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Nationality	Ottoman Empire
Political party	Committee of Union and Progress

Yakub Cemil (1883–1916) was an Ottoman revolutionary and soldier who assassinated Nazım Pasha during the 1913 Ottoman coup d'état. ^[1] In 1916, he was arrested, sentenced to death, and executed. ^[2]

During the Caucasus campaign, troops under the command of Cemil carried out some of the first major massacres of Armenians. ^[3]

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Sources

• Badem, Candan (2019). "The War at The Caucasus Front: A Matrix for Genocide". The End of the Ottomans: The Genocide of 1915 and the Politics of Turkish Nationalism. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 47–66. ISBN  978-1-78831-241-7.