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Mehmed Talaat Pasha (; (トルコ語:Mehmet Talât Paşa); 1874 – 15 March 1921), commonly known as Talaat Pasha, was one of the triumvirate known as the Three Pashas that ''de facto'' ruled the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.〔Sylvia Kedourie, S Tanvir Wasti (1996) Turkey: Identity, Democracy, Politics. ISBN 0-7146-4718-7 p. 96〕 His career in Ottoman politics began by becoming Deputy for Edirne in 1908, then Minister of the Interior and Minister of Finance, and finally Grand Vizier (equivalent to Prime Minister) in 1917.〔 Acting as the Minister of Interior, Talaat Pasha ordered on 24 April 1915 the arrest and deportation of Armenian intellectuals in Constantinople, most of them being ultimately murdered, and in 30 May 1915 requested the Tehcir Law (Temporary Deportation Law); these events initiated the Armenian Genocide. He is widely considered the main perpetrator of the Genocide. He was one of the leaders of les Jeunes Turcs movement and the first Turkish Grand Master of the Freemasonry, according to the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Turkey.〔http://www.mason.org.tr/web/03_turkiye.html#4〕〔http://www.mason.org.tr/web/en_index.html〕 On the night of 2-3 November 1918 and with the aid of Ahmed Izzet Pasha, Talaat Pasha and Ismail Enver Pasha (the two main perpetrators of the Genocide) fled the Ottoman Empire. Talaat was assassinated in Berlin in 1921 by Soghomon Tehlirian, one of the survivors of the Armenian Genocide.〔 == Early life == Mehmed Talaat was born in 1874 in Kırcaali town of Edirne Vilayet into a family of Pomak descent.〔Taner Timur, ''(Türkler ve Ermeniler: 1915 ve Sonrası )'', İmge Kitabevi, 2001, ISBN 978-975-533-318-2, p. 53. 〕 His father was a junior civil servant working for the government of the Ottoman Empire and was from a village in the mountainous southeastern corner of present-day Bulgaria. Mehmed Talaat had a powerful build and a dark complexion. His manners were gruff, which caused him to leave the civil preparatory school without a certificate after a conflict with his teacher. Without earning a degree, he joined the staff of the telegraph company as a postal clerk in Edirne. His salary was not high, so he worked after hours as a Turkish language teacher in the Alliance Israelite School which served the Jewish community of Edirne.〔 At the age of 21 he had a love affair with the daughter of the Jewish headmaster for whom he worked. He was caught sending a telegram saying "Things are going well. I'll soon reach my goal." With two of his friends from the post office, he was charged with tampering with the official telegraph and arrested in 1893. He claimed that the message in question was to his girlfriend. The Jewish girl came forward to defend him. Sentenced to two years in jail, he was pardoned but exiled to Salonica as a postal clerk.〔 He married Hayriye Hanım (later known as Hayriye Talaat Bafralı), a young girl from Ioannina on 19 March 1910. Between 1898 and 1908 he served as a postman on the staff of the Thessaloniki Post Office. Eventually, having served 10 years at this postal unit, he became head of the Thessaloniki Post Office.〔http://www.telekomculardernegi.org.tr/haber-2730-iz-birakan-ptt%E2%80%99ciler--1--talat-pasa-.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Talaat Pasha」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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