Yakub Cemil | |
Birth Date: | 1883 |
Birth Place: | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire |
Death Date: | 11 September 1916 (aged 32/33) |
Death Place: | Istanbul, Ottoman Empire |
Nationality: | Ottoman Empire |
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]
During the Caucasus campaign, troops under the command of Cemil carried out some of the first major attacks to Armenians.
In 1916, he was arrested, sentenced to death, and executed.[2]