“A Shameful Act”: Newmag presents Turkish historian Taner Akçam’s extensive study about the Armenian Genocide (trailer in Armenian)
Book critics assess Taner Akçam’s “A Shameful Act” book as an extensive and powerful work. Professor Akçam has authored 10 books. In this spectacular book he talks about the Armenian Genoicde and the issue of Turkish responsibility. Newmag Publishing Hous
Akcam has been involved in Turkish politics since an early age. In the 1980s, he became interested in the Armenian Genocide. He has published 10 books abou the genocide. He is the first scholar of any nationality to have mined the significant evidence—in Turkish military and court records, parliamentary minutes, letters, and eyewitness accounts. Akçam follows the chain of events leading up to the killing and then reconstructs its systematic orchestration by coordinated departments of the Ottoman state. This is Akçam’s second book translated in Armenian. The first one that Newmag published was the “Killing Orders”, which was sold in bookstores at a speed of light.
In the book Akçam emphasizes that under the cover of a world war, one and a half million Armenians were killed through starvation, forced marches, forced exile, and mass acts of slaughter. Although Armenians and world opinion have held the Ottoman powers responsible, Turkey has consistently rejected any claim of intentional genocide.
In a pioneering work of excavation, Turkish historian Taner Akçam has made extensive and unprecedented use of Ottoman and other sources to produce a scrupulous charge sheet against the Turkish authorities. He also probes the crucial question of how Turkey succeeded in evading responsibility, pointing to competing international interests in the region, the priorities of Turkish nationalists, and the international community's inadequate attempts to bring the perpetrators to justice.
This book, which does not lose its relevance, is a primary and extensive study on the Armenian Genocide. Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk claims: “Everything is said in the book. No historical discussion can pass by this spectacular book.”
The book presentation will be held today, on April 21 in the hall of AGBU Armenia. Armenian historians and the creative staff of Newmag will give speeches. The book trailer will be presented. The TV presentation of the book will be held on April 23.
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