Taner Akçam
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Altuğ Taner Akçam is a Turkish-German historian and sociologist. During the 1990s, he was the first Turkish scholar to acknowledge the Armenian genocide, and has written several books on the genocide, such as A Shameful Act , From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide , The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity , and Killing Orders . He is recognized as a "leading international authority" on the subject. Akçam's frequent participation in public debates on the legacy of the genocide have been compared to Theodor Adorno's role in postwar Germany.
Taner Akçam's Published Works
Published Works
- From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide (2004) (146)
- The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire (2012) (64)
- Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide Trials (2011) (35)
- The Genocide of the Armenians and the Silence of the Turks (1999) (22)
- The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide (2015) (22)
- Turks, Armenians, and the “G-Word” (2005) (16)
- Facing History: Denial and the Turkish National Security Concept (2011) (9)
- Taner Akçam, The Young Turks' crime against humanity: the Armenian genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Ottoman Empire (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012) (2013) (8)
- The Ottoman Documents and the Genocidal Policies of the Committee for Union and Progress (İttihat ve Terakki) toward the Armenians in 1915 (2006) (6)
- Anatomy of a crime: The Turkish Historical Society's manipulation of archival documents (2005) (6)
- Guenter Lewy's The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey (2008) (5)
- Shadows of War: Facing history: Denial and the Turkish national security concept (2010) (3)
- When Was the Decision to Annihilate the Armenians Taken? (2019) (3)
- Deportation and Massacres in the Cipher Telegrams of the Interior Ministry in the Prime Ministerial Archive (Başbakanlik Arşivi) (2006) (2)
- The Chilingirian Murder: A Case Study from the 1915 Roundup of Armenian Intellectuals (2011) (2)
- The Spirit of the Law: Following the Traces of Genocide in the Law of Abandoned Property (2014) (2)
- Everything makes sense once given context (2017) (1)
- A short history of the Torossian debate (2015) (1)
- To Study the Armenian Genocide in Turkey: Caught between a Conspiracy of Silence and Murderous Hatred (2017) (0)
- Appendix B: Dr. Avedis Nakkashian’s Letter to Andonian (2018) (0)
- Call to Action (2021) (0)
- Notes on contributors (2005) (0)
- Book Review: Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870–1915 (2016) (0)
- Raymond Kévorkian The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History. London and New York: I.B. Taurus, 2011, 1,029 pp. £52.00 (hbk) (2015) (0)
- Subjects and Events Mentioned by Naim Efendi Corroborated in Ottoman Documents (2018) (0)
- Appendix D: Consul W. Rössler’s Letter to Dr. Lepsius (2018) (0)
- Appendix E: Memorandum to the Lawyers of Soghomon Tehlirian (2018) (0)
- Interview with Taner Akcam, November 8, 2010 (2011) (0)
- Appendix C: Aram Andonian’s Letter to Mary Terzian (2018) (0)
- Introduction (2015) (0)
- The Climate Emergency: A Statement from Genocide Scholars on the Necessity for a Paradigm Shift (2021) (0)
- Even If the Memoirs Are Authentic, Could the Documents Still Be Forgeries? (2018) (0)
- DENIAL AS A SECURITY CONCEPT (2009) (0)
- Echoes of the genocide : Reflections on Turkey's Treatment of Armenian Property (2013) (0)
- The Genocide of the Christian Populations in the Ottoman Empire and its Aftermath (1908-1923) (2023) (0)
- Top-Down and Local Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Role of Security Concerns and a Century of “Accumulated Experience” (2022) (0)
- The spirit of the laws (2015) (0)
- Judgment At Istanbul (2022) (0)
- The Making of the Greek Genocide: Contested Memories of the Ottoman Greek Catastrophe. By Eric Sjöberg. New York: Berghahn Books, 2017. viii, 255 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. $110.00, hard bound. (2018) (0)
- Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal (2020) (0)
- Festschrift in honour of Giulina Capaldo (2013) (0)
- Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal (2020) (0)
- The Story and Authenticity of Naim Efendi and His Memoirs (2018) (0)
- The Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Sources (2006) (0)
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