Three Pashas

The Turkish public has widely criticised the Three Pashas for drawing the Ottoman Empire into World War I and its subsequent defeat.

[6] All three met violent deaths after the war—Talaat and Cemal were assassinated by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation as part of Operation Nemesis, whilst Enver died leading the Basmachi Revolt near Dushanbe, present-day Tajikistan.

After their deaths, Talaat and Enver's remains have been reburied at the Monument of Liberty in Istanbul[7][8] and many of Turkey's streets have been controversially renamed in their honour.

Other than the Three Pashas and Halil Bey, personalities such as Dr. Nazım, Bahaeddin Şakir, Mehmed Reşid, Ziya Gökalp, and the party's secretary general Midhat Şükrü also dominated the Central Committee without formal positions in the Ottoman government.

Talaat and Cemal were assassinated in exile in 1921 and 1922 respectively by Armenian revolutionaries; Enver died in a Red Army ambush in Tajikistan in 1922 while trying to lead an anti-Russian insurrection.

Enver Pasha and Djemal Pasha visiting the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem during the First World War .
The front page of the Ottoman newspaper İkdam on 4 November 1918 after the Three Pashas fled the country following World War I . Showing left to right Cemal Pasha ; Talaat Pasha ; Enver Pasha
Kaiser Wilhelm II (left) with Enver Pasha (right), October 1917. Enver was one of the main perpetrators of the Armenian genocide .