Akcam March 14 2007 010

Turkish scholar Dr. Taner Akçam: "A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility," March 14, 2007, at Harvard University's Center for Government and International Studies, Auditorium. This lecture was co-sponsored by the Zoryan Institute for Contemporary Armenian Research and Documentation, the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), the Harvard Armenian Society, the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies, and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

Dr. Taner Akçam is the author of A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (Metropolitan Books), a groundbreaking study that makes extensive, unprecedented use of Ottoman and other sources largely unexamined in English-language works. Drawing on all the significant evidence -- in Turkish military and court records, parliamentary minutes, eyewitness narratives, and previous works of scholarship -- Akçam has produced a scrupulous account of Ottoman culpability.

Nobel Prize winning-author Orhan Pamuk has said, "A Shameful Act is the definitive account of the organized destruction of the Ottoman Armenians written by a brave Turkish scholar who has devoted his life to chronicling the events. No future discussion of the history will be able to ignore this brilliant book."

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