Behaeddin Shakir

Bahattin Şakir ( Ottoman بهاءالدین شاکر, * 1874 in Constantine Opel, Opel vilayet Constantine, † April 17, 1922 in Berlin, Germany ) was a founding member of the Committee of Union and Progress, the genocide of the Armenians, the Syrians and the persecutions the Greeks organized, as well as head of the Teskilat -ı Mahsusa.

Şakir was born in Thrace and studied medicine at the Military Medical Academy in Istanbul. He soon learned Doctor Nazim know.

At the end of the First World War, he was arrested with other committee members, first by the Ottoman military justice, then by the British government. He was transferred to Malta, where he was charged by military courts for crimes against humanity, but never convicted, and then fled to Berlin.

In the fall of 1919, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF ), part of the Armenian Fedayeen, the leaders of the genocide of the Armenians decided to kill. Bahattin Şakir was assassinated on April 17, 1922 as part of the secret operation Nemesis along with Cemal Azmi by Aram Yerganian in Berlin.