Soghomon Tehlirian (Armenian: ??????? ????????? (classical); ??????? ????????? (reformed); April 2; 1896 - May 23; 1960) was an Armenian Genocide survivor who assassinated the former Ottoman Interior Minister Talaat Pasha in Berlin in the presence of many witnesses on March 15; 1921 as an act of vengeance for Talaat's role in orchestrating the Armenian Genocide during World War I.

It was a part of the Operation Nemesis by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation. Even before his assassination; Talaat Pasha had been convicted and sentenced to death in absentia by his own Ottoman Empire in the Turkish Courts-Martial of 1919-1920 for his crimes against the Armenians of the Empire (among other things). After a two-day trial Tehlirian was found not guilty by the German court and was freed.

Tehlirian is considered a national hero by Armenians. Pictures From History