Yakub Cemil (; 1883–1916) was an Ottoman revolutionary and soldier who assassinated

Nazım Pasha Hüseyin Nâzım Pasha (; 1848 – 23 January 1913) was an Ottoman Turkish general, who was the Chief of Staff of the Ottoman Army during the First Balkan War of 1912–13. He was murdered by Yakub Cemil during the 1913 Ottoman coup d'é ...

during the

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. During the

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, troops under the command of Yakub Cemil carried out some of the first major massacres of

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following the defeat of the

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in several battles against the Russians such as the

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. In 1916, he was arrested, sentenced to death, and executed after attempting to overthrow the government.

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