Turkish-Armenian Relations. Facing History: Denial as a Security Concept

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• Dr. Taner Akçam from the University of Minnesota
• Thursday 06 March 2008, 19:00-20:00
• Cambridge Union, Kennedy Room.

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Professor Taner Akçam teaches (since 2002) in the History Department of University of Minnesota and is an authority on the late Ottoman and modern Turkish history and the Armenian genocide. He has authored ten scholarly works on history and sociology, as well as numerous articles in Turkish, German and English. His most recent publications include From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide (Zed, 2004); A Shameful Act: the Armenia Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (Metropolitan, 2006) and most recently ‘Ermeni Meselesi Hallolunmuştur’: Osmanlı Belgelerine Göre Savaş Yıllarında Ermenilere Yönelik Politikalar (Istanbul, İletişim, 2008). Born in Turkey, in 1953, Prof. Akçam is considered a social dissident by some. Since the 1990’s, Akcam has maintained the Turkish government’s refusal to declare what happened to the Armenians during World War I a “genocide” grossly misrepresents the historical facts. In January 2007 Prof. Akçam was charged—for “insulting Turkishness”—under Article 301 of Turkey’s penal code for asserting that the Armenian deportations of 1915-17 constituted a genocide. While cleared of the charges, Prof. Akçam continues to receive threats and has been subjected to online harassment, especially through false entries in his online Wikipedia biography.

http://www2.cla.umn.edu/faculty/public_profile.php?UID=takcam

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