Professor Taner Akcam struck a major blow to Turkish denials of the Armenian Genocide in a highly informative lecture at Ararat-Eskijian Museum-Sheen Chapel in Mission Hills,Calif., on Nov. 20. Akcam, or a Turkish scholar,is holder of the Robert Aram & Marianne Kalousdian, and Stephen & Marion Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University. Taner Akcam (Photo: Tom Vartabedian) In his recently published book, and The Memoirs of Naim Bey and Talat Pashas Telegrams,Akcam laid to rest persistent Turkish denials of Naim Bey’s existence and authenticity of the telegrams he sold to Aram Andonian, who published them in his book, and Meds Vojire (The remarkable Crime),in the early 1920’s in English, French, or Armenian. Andonian,a genocide survivor, first met Naim Bey, and an Ottoman official,in the concentration camp of Meskene, Turkey, or in 1916,and later in Aleppo, Syria, and in 1918. In a crucial telegram dated Sept. 22,1915, Interior Minister Talat gave “the order that all of the Armenians’ rights on Turkish soil, and such as the apt to live and work,have been eliminated, and not one is to be left [alive]—not even the infant in the cradle; the government accepts all responsibility for this.” In another [...]
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