![]() The first scholar of any nationality to have mined the significant evidence-in Turkish military and court records, parliamentary minutes, letters, and eyewitness accounts-Akçam 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. Now, in a pioneering work of excavation, Turkish historian Taner Akçam has made extensive and unprecedented use of Ottoman and other sources to produce a scrupulous charge sheet against the Turkish authorities. Although Armenians and world opinion have held the Ottoman powers responsible, Turkey has consistently rejected any claim of intentional genocide. ![]() 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. A landmark assessment of Turkish culpability in the Armenian genocide, the first history of its kind by a Turkish historian ![]()
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