Born in Ardahan province, Turkey, in 1953, Taner Akçam is the author of ten scholarly works of history and sociology, including A Shameful Act, as well as numerous articles in Turkish, German, and English. He currently teaches at Clark University.
Akçam is the first Turkish scholar to call the massacres genocide;
his impressive achievement here is to shine fresh light on exactly
why and how the Ottoman Empire deported and slaughtered the
Armenians.
--The New York Times Book Review No scholar has mined and
synthesized the Ottoman Empire's internal documents and memoirs
with Akçam's assiduous skill.... A Shameful Act is destined to
become a touchstone for other studies.... Be grateful for Taner
Akçam: he speaks the holy truth.
--Philadelphia Inquirer No one knows how many Armenians died at
Turkish hands in the 1910s, but the number almost certainly exceeds
one million. Akçam, writing from the safe distance of the
University of Minnesota, has worked through thousands and thousands
of documents to find concrete evidence thereof, against
considerable difficulty.
--Publishers Weekly
Akcam is the first Turkish scholar to call the massacres
genocide; his impressive achievement here is to shine fresh light
on exactly why and how the Ottoman Empire deported and slaughtered
the Armenians.
--The New York Times Book Review No scholar has mined and
synthesized the Ottoman Empire's internal documents and memoirs
with Akcam's assiduous skill.... A Shameful Act is destined to
become a touchstone for other studies.... Be grateful for Taner
Akcam: he speaks the holy truth.
--Philadelphia Inquirer No one knows how many Armenians died at
Turkish hands in the 1910s, but the number almost certainly exceeds
one million. Akcam, writing from the safe distance of the
University of Minnesota, has worked through thousands and thousands
of documents to find concrete evidence thereof, against
considerable difficulty.
--Publishers Weekly
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