Taner Akcam Columbia University part 1

A talk on Taner Akcam's book "A Shameful Act".

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Turkey
• Armenian
• genocide
• middle
• east

[melekian1]

taner akcam is the only turkish person i like and respect

[sazny]

Ataturk said in a 1926 interview with a Swiss reporter that "these holdovers from the C.U.Pshould be made to account for the lives of millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse from their homes and massacred. . . ."

[ibellwil]

people they targeted just like victoms of ''Dev Yol'' and now if we come to TANER AKÇAM probably first joined another terror group (THKP-C)implicated in many assassinations then became a founding figure in ''Dev Yol''Aside from being in ''Dev Yol's'' inner circle helping plan group's militant activities he edited ''Del Yols'' magazine,urging militants to take up armed struggle against his fashist goverment and to bring down AMERICAN imperializm.

[ibellwil]

This is what a terror group of the time in USA ,the SLA ''who hated their own

fascisit AMERICAN goverment dreamed of doing.In 1976 AKCAM

was tried for the murder of a politician but found a way to save his bacon.The prosecutor charged ''Dev Yol '' was the most dangerious lefist group as it was trying to unite the rest.While he was in a Turkish prison he escaped ......... it continues and i can say tons of things about him.

As a result all i can say TANER AKCAM is an ex terorist and BIG LIER

[00thelastottoman00]

@Arzive TURKIYE FOUNDED BY TURKS, I MEAN WHO FEEL HIMSELF AS TURK, HE OR SHE IS OUR CITIZEN...

SO, THERE IS NO GREEK, ARMENIAN OR CHRISTIAN POPULATION IN TURKIYE LIKE OTTOMAN PERIOD...

OTTOMANS DON T CHANGE TO PEOPLES RELIGION AND LANGUAGE BUT TURKIYE CALLED BACK MUSLIM TURKS FROM BALKANS AND SEND CHRISTIANS BACK TO THEIR MAIN COUNTRIES...

BECAUSE WE CAN T SEPERATE OUR LANDS AND PEACE AGREEMENTS SIGNED BY GREECE AND ARMENIA...

[00thelastottoman00]

@Arzive I THINK YOU HAVE MISSING INFORMATION ABOUT GREEK AND ARMENIAN POPULATION OF TURKIYE BECAUSE TURKIYE, ARMENIA AND GREECE SIGNED AN AGREEMENT AFTER TURKISH INDEPENDENCY WAR...

AND ALL SIDES SEND THEIR POPULATIONS TO HOME LANDS...

I MEAN TURKS SENT BY GREEKS TO TURKIYE AND GREEKS SENT BY TURKS TO GREECE...

SO, POPULATION CHANGED, ONLY ISTANBUL IS SAME AS BEFORE... BUT SOME ISTANBUL GREEKS AND ARMENIANS LEFT TURKIYE AS VOLUNTEER..

THIS IS NOT OUR PROBLEM.

[00thelastottoman00]

@Arzive YOU CAN T EDUCATE ME!!!

YOU MUST PRAY TO GOD BECAUSE OF TURKISH MERCY, DON T FORGET YOU ARE ARMENIAN TODAY BECAUSE OF GREAT OTTOMAN AND ISLAM.

ISLAM FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE!!!

WE ARE NOT IMPERIALIST LIKE BRITISH, FRENCH OR RUSSIAN BARBARIANS!

[00thelastottoman00]

@Arzive ALSO WE WILL ALWAYS REJECT YOUR FACIST HYPOTHESIS!!!

WE HAVE ONLY ONE WAY TO ACCEPT 1915 GENOCIDE!

SOLUTION IS;

ALL ARMENIANS MUST DIE, THAN I PROMISE WE WILL ACCEPT 1915 GENOCIDE!

ALSO EUROPE MUST PAY MONEY TO TURKIYE BECAUSE OF 1915 GALLIPOLI WAR AND IZMIR ATTACK OF GREEK ARMY!

DON T WORRY ALSO I SENT E MAIL TO TANER AKCAM ABOUT MY IDEAS AND HE IS TOTALLY FALSE!

FIRSTLY, HE IS SOCIAL SCIENTIST, HE IS NOT HISTORIAN, SO TANER CAN T ACCEPT ANYTHING ABOUT HISTORY!

[Arzive]

@00thelastottoman00 I'm not going to answer you anymore. Clearly you know nothing. You're just mindlessly saying what Bahceli wants you to say (and most annoyingly, with ALL CAPS, as if it makes a difference). I bet you haven't even read any of Taner Akcam's books and you're criticizing his view. I have more important things to do than to educate kids like you.

[Arzive]

@00thelastottoman00 Turks never tried to change the language of its minorities? Really? This proves how little you know about your own history. Near the end of Ottoman history, one of the reasons why the Muslim Arabs even rebelled against the Ottoman Empire is because the Young Turks banned Arabic and forced Arabic schools to teach Turkish instead.

[Arzive]

@00thelastottoman00 I told you I didn't criticize your english, I criticized your pathetic arguments.

Turkiye still lives with Greeks and Armenians??? Before 1915, there were several millions of Armenians and Greeks in Turkey... the puny 70,000 Armenians and 4,000 Greeks left don't give that much weight to your "Armenians and Greeks still live in Turkiye, so Turkiye is angel" argument. There are A LOT more Algerians and Tunisians in France than Armenians in Turkey.