Behaeddin Shakir was claimed to be the central figure of the Teşkilat-i Mahsusa (Special Organization).[2] He was one of the architects of the Armenian Genocide.[3] This is sometimes used as proof of a state organized genocide using the tehcir (deportations) process of the Tehcir law. Halil Berktay says that local administrators objected to Behaeddin Shakir's deportation orders and called for his arrest.[4] Dissidents were usually replaced by hardliners; sometimes twice if the replacement was not pliant.[5]