TY - BOOK ID - 10086845 TI - A shameful act : the Armenian genocide and the question of Turkish responsibility. AU - Akçam, Taner AU - Bessemer, Paul PY - 2006 SN - 0805079327 9780805079326 9780805079326 PB - New York Holt DB - UniCat KW - 341.48 KW - BPB0611 KW - Misdaden tegen de mensheid. Volkerenmoord KW - Armenian massacres KW - Genocide. KW - War crimes. KW - 341.48 Misdaden tegen de mensheid. Volkerenmoord KW - Armenian massacres, 1915-1923 KW - Genocide KW - War crimes KW - Crime KW - Cleansing, Ethnic KW - Ethnic cleansing KW - Ethnic purification KW - Ethnocide KW - Purification, Ethnic KW - Armenian genocide, 1915-1923 KW - Armenian question KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Atrocities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:10086845 AB - A landmark assessment of Turkish culpability in the Armenian genocide, the first history of its kind by a Turkish historian In 1915, under the cover of a world war, some one million Armenians were killed through starvation, forced marches, forced exile, and mass acts of slaughter. Although Armenians and world opinion have held the Ottoman powers responsible, Turkey has consistently rejected any claim of intentional genocide. Now, in a pioneering work of excavation, Turkish historian Taner Akam has made extensive and unprecedented use of Ottoman and other sources to produce a scrupulous charge sheet against the Turkish authorities. The first scholar of any nationality to have mined the significant evidence& in Turkish military and court records, parliamentary minutes, letters, and eyewitness accounts& Akam follows the chain of events leading up to the killing and then reconstructs its systematic orchestration by coordinated departments of the Ottoman state, the ruling political parties, and the military. He also probes the crucial question of how Turkey succeeded in evading responsibility, pointing to competing international interests in the region, the priorities of Turkish nationalists, and the international community's inadequate attempts to bring the perpetrators to justice. As Turkey lobbies to enter the European Union, Akam's work becomes ever more important and relevant. Beyond its timeliness, 'A Shameful Act' is sure to take its lasting place as a classic and necessary work on the subject. ER -