MID-2005 ADDENDUM
This TAT page in particular has had a history of trying to solve the many Tehlirian riddles. The problem is, the only sources to consult on Armenian personalities (because the comparatively indifferent "Turkish" research has been so lax) have been pro-Armenian ones, not the kind of material that a genuine truth-seeker knows can be accepted at face value. As a result, I'm "revising" my views as better information comes to light. Just a few months ago, I got to the bottom of whether the Andonian documents were introduced at this trial. (They weren't.)
An article on the assassin in The Armenian Review (Nov. 1960) answered a lot of questions, if one reads between the propagandistic lines.
I am not going to rewrite this page at this time, so as you encounter these questions below, please bear in mind what appears to be the best facts, as of "now":
1) Tehlirian (b. 1897) had three older brothers, and that's it; no reference is made to other siblings. (In the trial testimony, we are told three sisters... "one sister, twenty-six or twenty-seven; another, sixteen and a half; and the youngest fifteen"... met their ends during the march. We can only conclude Tehlirian made them up.) From the A.R. article, it appears only one of these brothers and his mother did not survive the relocation process, from his immediate family. (Indeed, in the trial, Tehlirian only swears to seeing the body of one brother
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