Chronicle of Higher Education
March 28 2010

A Turkish Scholar Talks About the Armenian Genocide

By Andrea Fuller

Taner Akçam made history in the 1990s as the first Turkish academic to
publicly acknowledge that an Armenian genocide took place, an
assertion long disputed by the Turkish government.

An estimated 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire died
beginning in 1915 and culminating in the years following World War I.
The Armenian National Institute, in Washington, says those lives were
lost through mass slaughter, starvation, and disease as Armenians were
displaced by the Ottoman

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