Nazım subsequently fled from the Ottoman Empire to Germany in October 1918. Due to his role in the Armenian genocide, Nazım was sentenced to death in absentia by the Ottoman Turkish Courts-Martial of 1919–1920, but this was never carried out due to him having fled to Berlin. He moved to the newly founded Republic of Turkey in 1922 and was never executed for his crimes against the Armenians. However, in 1926, the Ankara Independence Tribunal ordered his arrest and ordered his execution for attempting to assassinate Mustafa Kemal Atatürk together with other former politicians of the CUP like Mehmet Cavit Bey or .