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PROFESSOR TANER AKCAM PRESENTS NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
armradio.am
06.04.2012 12:57
Professor Taner Akcam , Kaloosdian & Mugar Professor of Armenian
Genocide Studies at Clark University, will discuss new perspectives
on the Armenian Genocide based on his latest book at the Armenian
Library and Museum of America on April 15.
The book, "The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: the Armenian
Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire" has just been
released by Princeton University Press. In it, Dr. Akcam introduces new
evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents that demonstrate
in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide resulted from an
official effort to engage in demographic engineering and assimilation
in order to rid the Turkish Empire of its Christian subjects.
These previously inaccessible documents, from deep inside the
bureaucratic machinery of Ottoman Turkey, along with the author's
expert context and analysis, show how a dying empire embraced genocide
and ethnic cleansing.
Born in of a small town in northeastern Turkey, Dr. Akcam graduated
from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. Active in the
Turkish student democracy movement, he was arrested and sentenced
to ten years of imprisonment. After one year he managed to escape to
Germany, where he earned his doctorate from the University of Hanover.
From: A. Papazian
armradio.am
06.04.2012 12:57
Professor Taner Akcam , Kaloosdian & Mugar Professor of Armenian
Genocide Studies at Clark University, will discuss new perspectives
on the Armenian Genocide based on his latest book at the Armenian
Library and Museum of America on April 15.
The book, "The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: the Armenian
Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire" has just been
released by Princeton University Press. In it, Dr. Akcam introduces new
evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents that demonstrate
in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide resulted from an
official effort to engage in demographic engineering and assimilation
in order to rid the Turkish Empire of its Christian subjects.
These previously inaccessible documents, from deep inside the
bureaucratic machinery of Ottoman Turkey, along with the author's
expert context and analysis, show how a dying empire embraced genocide
and ethnic cleansing.
Born in of a small town in northeastern Turkey, Dr. Akcam graduated
from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. Active in the
Turkish student democracy movement, he was arrested and sentenced
to ten years of imprisonment. After one year he managed to escape to
Germany, where he earned his doctorate from the University of Hanover.
From: A. Papazian