Book Review
By Taner Akcam, 2006
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 175 Fifth Avenue, NY
The author, Taner Akcam, is a Turkish and a German citizen. He was born in Ardahan in 1953, in eastern Anatolia, whose father was a very respected educator and writer, Dursun Akcam, who died several years ago and buried without Taner Akcam being present at his funeral. A Cultural Center established in Dursun Akcam He studied at the respected Middle East Technical University in Ankara but fled Turkey while in prison due to his subversive activities. So much for his love of his country. After getting a PhD in Germany, he was hired by the University of Minnesota where he still teaches at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies together with other self declared genocide scholars, to the surprise of many who know the background of Taner Akcam.
In the acknowledgements section of the book, Taner Akcam states that the origin of his book go back to his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Hanover in Germany in 1995. He gives special thanks to his mentors, Professor Vahan Dadrian and Professor Peter Gleichmann and much of the material referenced in the book has been put at his disposal by Professor Dadrian, who is known for the misinformation on the subject. The author states that the English version is a revised edition of his book published in 1999, Insan Haklari ve Ermeni Sorunu (Human Rights and the Armenian Question), which the author states is a revised and expanded version of his thesis. And what is his thesis: The Ottoman Turks deliberately committed genocide, which is disputed by many scholars from different countries and Turkey and the case has never been proved in a court. Therefore, Akcam
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