Destiny Disrupted

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INDUSTRY, CONSTITUTIONS, AND NATIONALISM 299


unconditionally to the Allies, and the three Pashas knew they were in big
trouble. All three of them, Talaat, Enver, and Djemal, fled Istanbul inches
ahead of arrest warrants. Talaat went to Berlin, where an Armenian assas-
sinated him in 1921. Djemal went to Georgia, where an Armenian assas-
sinated him in 1922. Enver went to Central Asia to stir up rebellion
against the Bolsheviks. A Red Army detachment commanded by an Ar-
menian Bolshevik killed him there in 1922.
So ended the Committee for Union and Progress, a bad government to
be sure, but with its demise, the carcass of the "Ottoman Empire" was left
with no government at all.

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