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Altuğ Taner Akçam (born 1953) is a Turkish-German historian [1] and sociologist. During the 1990s, he was the first Turkish scholar to acknowledge the Armenian genocide , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and has written several books on the genocide, such as A Shameful Act (1999), From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide (2004), The ...
Taner Akçam is a historian and sociologist who studies the Armenian Genocide and advocates for human rights and democracy in Turkey. He is the first Turkish intellectual to acknowledge the genocide and the only professor of Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University.
Historian and sociologist Taner Akçam received his doctorate in 1995 from the University of Hanover, with a dissertation on The Turkish National Movement and the Armenian Genocide Against the Background of the Military Tribunals in Istanbul Between 1919 and 1922.
Articles 1–20. Clark University - Cited by 3,404 - Armenian History - Armenian Genocide - Late Ottoman History - Turkish History - History of theMiddle East.
Taner Akçam is the is the inaugural director of the Armenian Genocide Research Program of the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA. Previously he was the Kaloosdian and Mugar Chair in Modern Armenian History and Genocide in the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University.
22 Jun 2020 · Taner Akçam, one of the major historians of the Armenian Genocide, is a professor of History and the Kaloosdian/Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University.
Presenting these previously inaccessible documents along with expert context and analysis, Taner Akçam’s most authoritative work to date goes deep inside the bureaucratic machinery of Ottoman Turkey to show how a dying empire embraced genocide and ethnic cleansing.
