Three Pashas
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"The Three Pashas", also known as the "dictatorial triumvirate", included the Ottoman minister of the interior: Grand Vizier Mehmed Talat Pasha (1874–1921), the minister of war, Ismail Enver, (1881–1922) and the minister of the Navy, Ahmed Djemal, (1872–1922). They were the dominant political figures in the empire during the First World War. The Three Pashas were the principal players behind the Ottoman Empire's entry into World War One on the side of the Central Powers and were the primary architects of the Armenian Genocide.
It is widely believed that after the Coup of 1913, they became the de facto rulers of the Ottoman Empire until its dissolution following World War I. It was undeniable that most of the key decisions passed through them.
On November 2, after the Armistice of Mudros, Enver, Talat and Djemal, fled from Constantinople. All three were later tried in absentia for their involvement in the Armenian Genocide and were sentenced to death. Talat and Djemal were assassinated by Armenian survivors and Enver was killed by an Armenian-Russian soldier in central Asia during the Russian Civil war.
