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The Revenge of Soghomon Tehlirian

P Resta · 2016

Catalogue summary

A legal-ethnographic reading of Soghomon Tehlirian's 1921 Berlin trial asks how revenge reasoning shaped the jury's acquittal after he killed Talaat Pasha.

Why this matters

The case links individual retaliation, courtroom judgment, and responsibility for the Armenian Genocide without treating the verdict as a simple factual adjudication of history.

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Published in

Journal on European history of law

Year

2016

Language

English

DOI

10.66847/jehl.v7i1.1037

Citation

P Resta 2016. The Revenge of Soghomon Tehlirian. Journal on European history of law. https://doi.org/10.66847/jehl.v7i1.1037

Topics

Armenian Genocide Politics, law, diplomacy, and human rights Gender, family, memory, and oral history

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