FLASH MOBS IN MEMORY OF ARMENIAN HERO SOGHOMON TEHLIRIAN IN GERMANY

by Marianna Lazarian

Friday, April 3, 13:39

A flash mob timed to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in
Ottoman Turkey was organized in Hamburg on April 2, on the birthday of
Soghomon Tehlirian – an Armenian Genocide survivor who assassinated
the former Ottoman Interior Minister Talaat Pasha in the presence of
many witnesses on March 15, 1921 in Berlin as revenge for his role
in orchestrating the Armenian Genocide during World War I.

The flash mob participants opened a 100-meter-long Armenian tricolor
flag in Hamburg, Tigran Mets Charity Fund told ArmInfo. A similar
action is scheduled also for today in Berlin on the very place where
Tehlirian assassinated Talaat Pasha.

Tehlirian’s family was killed during the Genocide of Armenians. He
survived and escaped to Constantinople and then migrated to the United
States in 1920.

Talaat Pasha had been convicted and sentenced to death in absentia in
the Turkish Courts-Martial of 1919-1920 for his crimes against the
Armenians of the Empire (among other things). After a two-day trial
Tehlirian was found not guilty by the German court and freed.

Tehlirian is considered a national hero by Armenians.