Yakub Cemil (1883–1916) was an Ottoman revolutionary and soldier who assassinated

Nazım Pasha Hüseyin Nazım Pasha ( tr, Hüseyin Nâzım Paşa; 1848 – 23 January 1913) was an Ottoman general, who was the Chief of Staff of the Ottoman Army during the First Balkan War of 1912–13. He was murdered by Yakub Cemil during the 1913 Ot ...

during the

1913 Ottoman coup d'état The 1913 Ottoman coup d'état (January 23, 1913), also known as the Raid on the Sublime Porte ( tr, Bâb-ı Âlî Baskını), was a coup d'état carried out in the Ottoman Empire by a number of Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) members led by ...

. He was sentenced to death and executed in 1916.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cemil, Yakub 1883 births 1916 deaths Military personnel from Istanbul Revolutionaries from the Ottoman Empire Turkish nationalists Turkish assassins Executed assassins Members of the Special Organization (Ottoman Empire) 20th-century Ottoman military personnel People executed by the Ottoman Empire by firing squad