What happened during the night of 2–3 November 1918?
Talaat Pasha was assassinated
Talaat Pasha and other members of the CUP's central committee fled the Ottoman Empire
Talaat Pasha became Grand Vizier
The start of the Armenian genocide
Answer
On the night of November 2–3, 1918, Talaat Pasha, Interior Minister and one of the leaders of the Young Turk triumvirate that had ruled the Ottoman Empire since 1913, and other key members of the ruling Union and Progress Party (CUP) central committee clandestinely departed the Ottoman capital of Constantinople.
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