Shakir, Bahaeddin

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Authors
Publication date 17-01-2022
Host editors
  • U. Daniel
  • P. Gatrell
  • O. Janz
  • H. Jones
  • J. Keene
  • A. Kramer
  • B. Nasson
Book title 1914-1918 Online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Number of pages 4
Publisher Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH)
Abstract Bahaeddin Şakir was the reorganizer of the Committee of Union and Progress, a political party that became the government of the Ottoman Empire during the war. As a major functionary of the Special Organization, a paramilitary network which took orders directly from the Committee, Şakir emerged as one of the architects of the Armenian Genocide.
Document type Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.15463/ie1418.11562
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