Soghomon Tehlirian was an Armenian Genocide survivor who assasinated the former Ottoman Grand Vizier Talaat Pasha in the presence of many witnesses on March 15, 1921 in Berlin as revenge his role in orchestring the Armenian Genocide during World War 1. It was a part of the Operation Nemesis by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.
Talaat Pasha had been convicted and entenced to death in absentia in the Turkish Courts-Martial of 1919-1920 for his crimes against the Armenians of the Empire. After a two-day trial Tehlirian was found not guilty by the German court and freed, Tehlirian is considered a national hero by Armenians.