ARMENIANS OF FRANCE ESTABLISHED A "COMMITTEE OF PROTECTING TANER AKCAM"

PanARMENIAN.Net
24.07.2007 18:54 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenian community of France has established
a "Committee of Advocating Taner Akcam", which will protect the
writer from possible attacks by Turkey. The Committee has turned
to the French government and a number of European structures with
a letter, which informs about increasing danger for Akcam because
of his publications on the Armenian Genocide. The letter condemns
Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code, which violates the freedom
of speech and expression. "For about a month ago Professor Taner
Akcam at the Minnesota University found out that a man hiding in the
USA under "Holdwater" pseudonym and who is struggling against the
Armenian Genocide recognition for more than 30 years and protecting
the Turkish viewpoint in this respect is nobody else, than film
director Murad Gumen. After this the number of threats addressed to
the Turkish historian has significantly increased. An article titled
"Is it possible that Taner Akcam will be killed" was posted on one
of the Turkish web-sites.

The author of the article remembers Akcam’s activities and brings a
letter written by the historian himself.

In this letter Akcam says, "After Hrant I am next in turn", "Yerkir"
newspaper reports.

In 1977 Taner Akcam had to leave Turkey. From 1988 he lived in Hamburg,
Germany. From 2002 he is junior scientific assistant professor at
the Minnesota University, USA. Akcam is the author of "Shameful Act"
Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility", which
was widely and positively accepted in the USA and has attracted great
attention towards the author and the Armenian Genocide issue.