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SUMMARY:Turkish-Armenian Relations. Facing History: Denial as a Security C
 oncept - Dr. Taner Akçam from the University of Minnesota
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DESCRIPTION:Professor Taner Akçam teaches (since 2002) in the History Dep
 artment of University of Minnesota and is an authority on the late Ottoman
  and modern Turkish history and the Armenian genocide. He has authored ten
  scholarly works on history and sociology\, as well as numerous articles i
 n Turkish\, German and English. His most recent publications include From 
 Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide (Zed\, 2
 004)\; A Shameful Act: the Armenia Genocide and the Question of Turkish Re
 sponsibility (Metropolitan\, 2006) and most recently ‘Ermeni Meselesi Ha
 llolunmuştur’: Osmanlı Belgelerine Göre Savaş Yıllarında Ermeniler
 e Yönelik Politikalar (Istanbul\, İletişim\, 2008).  \nBorn in Turkey\,
  in 1953\, Prof. Akçam is considered a social dissident by some. Since th
 e 1990's\, Akcam has maintained the Turkish government’s refusal to decl
 are what happened to the Armenians during World War I a "genocide" grossly
  misrepresents the historical facts.  In January 2007 Prof. Akçam was cha
 rged -- for “insulting Turkishness” -- under Article 301 of Turkey’s
  penal code for asserting that the Armenian deportations of 1915-17 consti
 tuted a genocide. While cleared of the charges\, Prof. Akçam continues to
  receive threats and has been subjected to online harassment\, especially 
 through false entries in his online Wikipedia biography.\n\nhttp://www2.cl
 a.umn.edu/faculty/public_profile.php?UID=takcam
LOCATION:Cambridge Union\, Kennedy Room
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