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NAASR Armenian Studies | Taner Akçam | A Shameful Act

A Shameful Act The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility Dr. Taner Akçam -------------------------------- A pioneer among scholars of Turkish origin, Dr. Taner Akçam is the author of the recently published A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (Metropolitan Books), a groundbreaking study that makes extensive, unprecedented use of Ottoman and other sources largely unexamined in English-language works. Drawing on all the significant evidence – in Turkish military and court records, parliamentary minutes, eyewitness narratives, and previous works of scholarship – Akçam has produced a scrupulous account of Ottoman culpability. The Unionists who carried out the Armenian Genocide, the Nationalists of the early Turkish Republic, and today's denialists have all believed they were saving the Turkish fatherland from partition by the West. Any attempt to open a discussion on this past has been denounced as a covert move in a master plan to partition the country. This tangle of past and present into a tight knot of self-defensiveness has its roots in the breakup of the Ottoman Empire. From late Ottoman times to the present, there has been continuous tension between the state's concern for secure borders and society's need to come to terms with abuses of human rights. The recent murder of Armenian newspaper editor Hrant Dink in Istanbul, Turkey's bid for entry into the European Union, and the Armenian Genocide recognition bill in the U.S. Congress have given Akçam's scholarly work of historical excavation a remarkable timeliness as Turkey struggles to confront its history. Dr. Akçam is also the author of From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide, Dialogue Across An International Divide: Essays Towards a Turkish-Armenian Dialogue, as well as numerous other books and articles in Turkish, German, and English. -------------------------------- March 14, 2007 Harvard University, Center for Government and International Studies South Building, Auditorium S010 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA Presented by: The Zoryan Institute for Contemporary Armenian Research and Documentation The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) The Harvard Armenian Society The Mashtots Chair of Armenian Studies, Harvard University The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University