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Talaat Pasha

1874 - 1921

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Mehmed Talaat (1 September 1874 – 15 March 1921), commonly known as Talaat Pasha or Talat Pasha, was an Ottoman Young Turk activist, politician, and convicted war criminal who served as the de facto leader of the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1918. He was chairman of the Union and Progress Party, which operated a one-party dictatorship in the Empire; during World War I he became Grand Vizier (prime minister). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Talaat Pasha has received more than 1,084,585 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia. Talaat Pasha is the 1,743rd most popular politician (down from 1,681st in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Bulgaria and the 10th most popular Bulgarian Politician.

Talaat Pasha was most famous for his role in the Armenian Genocide. He was a Turkish politician and one of the three members of the Young Turk triumvirate that ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1918.

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  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.93

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Over the past year Talaat Pasha has had the most page views in the with 254,061 views, followed by English (187,813), and Russian (34,721). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Indonesian (82.98%), Swedish (70.14%), and Basque (55.62%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Talaat Pasha ranks 1,743 out of 19,576. Before him are Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator, Salome Zourabichvili, Perseus of Macedon, Chiang Ching-kuo, Harthacnut, and Nikephoros III Botaneiates. After him are Sultan Cem, Songtsen Gampo, Sergey Bubka, Desiderius, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, and Fulk, King of Jerusalem.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Talaat Pasha ranks 21. Before him are António Egas Moniz, Carl Bosch, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Sunjong of Korea, Nikolai Berdyaev, and G. K. Chesterton. After him are W. Somerset Maugham, August Krogh, Karl Kraus, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Ernest Shackleton, and Konstantin Päts. Among people deceased in 1921, Talaat Pasha ranks 10. Before him are Gabriel Lippmann, Peter I of Serbia, Ludwig III of Bavaria, Carl Menger, Alfred Hermann Fried, and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. After him are Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Nicholas I of Montenegro, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, John Boyd Dunlop, Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, and Henrietta Swan Leavitt.

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In Bulgaria

Among people born in Bulgaria, Talaat Pasha ranks 16 out of 415. Before him are Marcian (396), Maximinus Thrax (173), Simeon I of Bulgaria (864), Julia Kristeva (1941), Diogenes of Apollonia (-460), and Tiberius II Constantine (520). After him are Boris I of Bulgaria (828), Kubrat (605), Saint Naum (830), Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1937), Kaloyan of Bulgaria (1168), and Hristo Stoichkov (1966).

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Among POLITICIANS In Bulgaria

Among politicians born in Bulgaria, Talaat Pasha ranks 10. Before him are Todor Zhivkov (1911), Boris III of Bulgaria (1894), Marcian (396), Maximinus Thrax (173), Simeon I of Bulgaria (864), and Tiberius II Constantine (520). After him are Boris I of Bulgaria (828), Kubrat (605), Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1937), Kaloyan of Bulgaria (1168), Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria (1195), and Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria (1350).

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