Talat Pasha was born in Edirne in 1874. He took his primary education in Vize of Edirne. After completing Edirne Military School he became a secretary in Edirne Post Office and became a Turkish teacher in Alyans Israel School Edirne. He was interested in politics in his early ages, and he joined to actions against Sultan Abdulhamid’s government After some while he was arrested and he was exiled to Salonica, in 1898. He worked in Salonica Post Office. He founded Ottoman Liberty Society (Osmanlı Hurriyet Cemiyeti) which later took name Union and Progress Party (Ittihat ve Terakki Fırkası). He defended the idea of liberty and revolution. He was complained to palace and he was exiled to Anatolia again. This sentence was not commited. He went to Istanbul two times and he organised two other branches of Party of Union and Progress. He became a deputy in the Second Declaration of the Constitution. He became the Minister of Interior Affairs in the government of Huseyin Hilmi Pasha. Talat Pasha joined the Balkan Wars voluntarily and he was among the ones organised the Bab-i Ali Attact. After Bulgaria occupied Edirne he effected the army to take Edirne back. He joined the peace negotiations done with Bulgaria as the first member. He was appointed as the grand vizier, in 1917. He joined to the peace negotiation on behalf of the Ottoman Empire with Russia that endured from the World War I. He resigned from grand viziership, in 1918. He went to Germany after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I and left a letter to Ahmed Izzet Pasha that he was going to come back and to explain the defeat to his people. Talat Pasha was killed by an Armenian terrorist in 1921.

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