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Article: A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility. Taner Akcam. Paul Bessemer, translator. Constable. [pounds sterling]9.99 p.b. xxvii + 580 pages. ISBN 978-1-84529-552-3. This title was first published in Turkey in 1999 and this edition is taken from the US version, published in 2006. In this detailed and widely researched study the author shows that the massacre of Armenian Christians within the Ottoman Empire in 1915 was not a 'by-product' of the First World War but a deliberate policy of the Ottoman government. It was a 'centrally ...