Taner Akcham to lecture at Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia
05.01.2010 15:06 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Taner Akçam, author of `A Shameful Act: The Armenian
Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility’, visited 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 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, reported press-service of Armenian Catholicosate
at Antelias.