Tehlirian on Trial: Armenia's Avenger

Tehlirian on Trial: Armenia's Avenger

8.0 La vengeance des Arméniens, Le procès Tehlirian

2015, 52 m

Documentary, History

On 15 March 1921, Talat Pasha, a high-ranking Turkish dignitary, was shot dead in a Berlin street by a young Armenian. A few months later, Soghomon Tehlirian, his assassin, appeared before a German court. He faced the death penalty. Yet, during the trial, the victim gradually changed into the guilty party, and the accused was finally acquitted.

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