Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide
Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide is a 2018 academic book by Hans-Lukas Kieser, published by Princeton University Press. It is a biography of Talaat Pasha. As of 2018 there had been no recent biographies of Talaat, nor of Enver Pasha, in western European languages.[1] The book discusses the author's thesis that Talaat was co-Father of the Nation to modern Turkey along with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, as well as Talaat's rule and significance. It also mentions his assassination by Armenian hero Soghomon Tehlirian.
Author
The book argues that Talaat and other Ottoman officials ordered and managed the Armenian genocide.[2]
Background[edit]
Kieser began his concentration in Middle East history in the 1980s, after he became interested in the 1980 Turkish coup d'état.[3]
Keiser stated that a lack of biographies in languages other than Turkish about Talaat and a desire to contextualise the consequences of the Ottoman Empire's final decade of existence were his reasons for writing the book.[4]