The Revenge of Soghomon Tehlirian

One of the cases that emerges from the many pages of the Armenian genocide is the case of Soghomon Tehlirian who, on 15 March 1921, in Berlin, killed Talaat Pasha, the Turkish Prime Minister who was considered responsible of it. Tehlirian during the trial declared that he was guilty affirming that he acted in order to revenge his spilt-blood and he was acquitted. The analysis of this case of legal ethnography, through data and transcriptions, will focus on the judicial ability expressed by retaliative paradigm as a basic element of the jury’s choice, focusing on some aspects of the decision that the literature on revenge can help better understand