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Official Accusation Against Taner Akçam

Official Accusation Against Taner Akçam

By Alper Nakri, Dogan News Agency, Los Angeles

Milliyet, November 9, 2005, page 20

Three Turkish scholars affiliated with different American universities, academic researcher Taner Akçam, together with Fatma Müge Göcek and author Elif Safak, took part in a panel called “Three Turkish Voices on the Ottoman Armenians,” which was organized at UCLA by the Armenian lobby. Akçam asserted that Turkey will accept the genocide allegations along with EU membership; he claimed that this will take place in 2015. “According to the 1948 definition, it is impossible to define the Union and Progress Party’s policy towards the Armenians as anything but genocide,” Akçam told the Dogan News Agency. Engin Ansay, Turkey’s Consul General in Los Angeles, said they [the government?] had discovered that Akçam earns $5000 to $7000 for participating in conferences. Ansay stated: “This was a conference that didn’t include Turkey’s official position or take into account unbiased, objective, scholarly views and archival discoveries in Turkey. The participants were pseudo-scholars. Akçam and Göçek are rendering this service for fame and fortune, in a highly conscious manner, and perhaps even in spite of their own beliefs.”

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