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Taner Akçam

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    Turk who recognizes what happened to the Armenians in 1915 as a genocide. He gave a very informative lecture today, based on his latest book, “A Shameful Act” at my Great Grandma’s church. I recommend everybody read this book; he has done his research by reading documents on all sides (including as many of the official and copied orders from Talat Pasha & the CPU, INCLUDING the Telegram deniers try to cast off as a forgery) to come to his conclusion.

    I learned that the Armenians were kept to a different form of savagery than the rest of the non-Muslim population in the Turk’s plan, and that the Greeks were eventually persecuted in 1920 & ’21. The Turks wanted to get to them before then, but, held off because of the Germans (who I found out either encouraged the Armenian Genocide or at least were indifferent to it) telling the Turks to not harm the Greeks because they wanted Greece as an ally. From his book, I learned that “Armenians lived in peace under Ottoman rule,” is deceptive and playing with semantics because, COMPARITIVELY, they lived in peace at that time, as opposed to the savagery of earlier times…but, when the Genocide began (as it had been planned for since 1908) they were the most persecuted and possibly most feared, as they were not allowed to exceed 5 – 10% of the population in any given place. I have not read even half way into Chapter One or any of Mr. Akçem’s other books, but, I really recommend this one for reading.

    I am pretty sure this is all stream of conscience thought and I apologize if it doesn’t make sense. I wish I had more to say or could be wittier about it, but, this is all. Taner teaches at a university in the United States because of Article 301 prohibits him from teaching in Turkey. I encourage everybody to tell all their friends who they think may be interested or need to know about this book.

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    Quartaria,

    I actually bought the book (along with "The Bastard of Istanbul). I'll probably start reading it this week.

    If you get a chance, I suggest you read, "Black Dog of Fate" and "My Brother's Road". For a diasporan Armenian, these are must reads.

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      Re: Taner Akçam

      Originally posted by crusader1492
      Quartaria,

      I actually bought the book (along with "The Bastard of Istanbul). I'll probably start reading it this week.

      If you get a chance, I suggest you read, "Black Dog of Fate" and "My Brother's Road". For a diasporan Armenian, these are must reads.
      Just finished "Black Dog of Fate" and read "Shameful Act" a few months ago. Really liked the first book. The second, I will say that I appreciated a look from the other side (that was not about denial), however some aspects of it left me feeling that the author was providing an explanation (not necessarily on the scale of justification) for the Genocide. Maybe this was just my perspective.

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        Re: Taner Akçam

        A Black Dog of Fate sucked.

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          Re: Taner Akçam

          The Burning Tigris is much better.

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            Re: Taner Akçam

            Originally posted by ace
            A Black Dog of Fate sucked.
            I though it captured the Armenian-American experience beautifully.

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              Re: Taner Akçam

              Originally posted by crusader1492


              If you get a chance, I suggest you read, "Black Dog of Fate" and "My Brother's Road". For a diasporan Armenian, these are must reads.

              I’d like to read the books (However, they are not available for me now) but don’t you think these kind of books and preaches are more destined for the primitive Turks and their likes who have absoloutely no idea of anything?

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                Re: Taner Akçam

                Has anyone read The Forty Days of Musa Dagh ? How does it compare with everything else mentioned?

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