Yakub Cemil

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Yakub Cemil
Personal details
Born	1883 Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Died	11 September 1916 (aged 32/33) Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Political 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 massacres of Armenians.^[2]

In 1916, he was arrested, sentenced to death, and executed.^[3]

• Badem, Candan (2019). "The War at The Caucasus Front: A Matrix for Genocide". The End of the Ottomans: The Genocide of 1915 and the Politics of Turkish Nationalism. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 47–66. ISBN 978-1-78831-241-7.