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A Shameful Act
Taner Akçam
其他書名
The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility
出版Macmillan + ORM, 2007-08-21
主題History / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman EmpirePolitical Science / Genocide & War CrimesHistory / Modern / 20th Century / General
ISBN14668321269781466832121
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-etxMiFnkXAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋A landmark study of Turkish involvement in the Armenian genocide: A “groundbreaking and lucid account by a prominent Turkish scholar” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

In 1915, under the cover of a world war, some one million Armenians were killed through starvation, forced marches, exile, and mass acts of slaughter. Although Armenians and world opinion have held the Ottoman powers responsible, Turkey has consistently rejected claims of genocide. Now 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.

The first scholar of any nationality to mine 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. He also examines 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.