Taner Akcam

Taner Akcam is the Robert Aram, Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marion Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University.
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Akcam: Genocide Recognition is about Justice, Not Freedom of Thought

The following interview with Prof. Taner Akcam, the Robert Aram, Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marion Mugar Chair in Armenian…

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Akcam: Before Further Escalation in Syria

It looks like the countdown to regime change has begun in Syria. And Turkey may end up having a say…

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Akcam: The Newspaper Birgün and ‘Our Neighborhood’

  In May 2010, the Turkish Parliament changed 26 different articles of the constitution, which had been created by the…

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Akcam: What Davutoglu Fails to Understand

While the ruling AK Party in Turkey continues to sing the same old tune on the genocide, it is trying…

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Akcam: An Open Letter to the Prime Minister and Bulent Arinc

The Turkish version of this letter was published in Taraf on March 13. There is something I have difficulty understanding.…

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Akcam: Beyond Roadmaps and Protocols: Obstacles and Opportunities in Turkey’s Path to Peace with Armenians

This article was written explicitly for an American audience in late spring 2009. When I penned it, there was no…

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Akcam to Mouradian: Your Frustration with Turkish Intellectuals Exploded in Cemal’s Face

I have to confess that when I read Khatchig Mouradian’s editorial (Armenian Weekly, Nov. 21, 2009; available online at https://armenianweekly.com/2009/11/18/editorial-historic-indeed-cemal-pashas-grandson-in-watertown/) I…

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Akcam: Lying About 1915: Free. Calling the Liar out: Punishable by Law.

I’ve got steam coming out of my ears. I’m so angry, but what am I supposed to do? Even if…

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Facing History: Denial and the Turkish National Security Concept*

The Armenian Weekly April 2009 Magazine In September 2005, Turkish intellectuals who questioned the Turkish state’s denial policy on the…

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