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Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
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Antelias-Lebanon

TANER AKÇAM, TURKISH DISSIDENT SCHOLAR AND HISTORIAN TO LECTURE AT ANTELIAS

Taner Akçam, author of A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide an the Question
of Turkish Responsibility, will be visiting the Armenian Catholicosate at
Antelias on the 3rd of January. He has been one of the first Turkish
intellectuals who through his publications and lectures has stressed the
necessity of the official recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the
Turkish Government.

Mr. Akçam was Visiting Associate Professor of History at the University of
Minnesota and in 2008, he was appointed to the Chair of ‘Armenian Genocide’
Studies at Clark University, Worcester, MA irrespective of local Turkish
opposition. Four years ago, when HH Aram I was invited to lecture at the
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University in Minnesota, Dr.
Akçam expressed the desire to visit the Catholicosate of Cilicia, a victim
of the Genocide.

The Turkish Historian’s visit will last for five days, when he will be
giving lectures and meeting Armenian intellectuals as well as University
students. His first lecture will be on Monday, 4th of January at 7:00 pm at
the Catholicosate on The Turkish Recognition of the Armenian Genocide and
Turkish National Security.

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The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia is one of the two Catholicosates of
the Armenian Orthodox Church. For detailed information about the history and
the mission of the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer to the web page of
the Catholicosate, The Cilician
Catholicosate, the administrative center of the church is located in
Antelias, Lebanon.