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Article: Turkish historian mines and synthesizes the Ottoman Empire's internal documents and memoirs for moral clarity in `A Shameful Act'.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- December 6, 2006
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Byline: Carlin Romano
``A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility'' by Taner Akcam, translated by Paul Bessemer; Metropolitan Books ($30)
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Pope Benedict XVI's just-ended magical military tour of Turkey _ with helicopters overhead and riot police bristling on every flank lest he be plugged on his first visit to a Muslim land _ revealed a profound truth: Those who forget the past sometimes simply want to forget it.
The pope didn't utter a peep about arriving in a country whose predecessor state, the Ottoman Empire, committed the largest genocide in history against Christians. Of course, it may ...