It is hard for Americans to imagine a topic almost a century old that remains so wounding that writers risk their lives merely for raising it. Yet in Turkey, the nightmarish events of 1915–16, when upwards of a million Armenians may have perished at the hands of the Ottoman Turks, remain so bitterly contested that even using the word “genocide” can get you into trouble. R (...)
February 23, 2007
Books
Nation-making Amnesia
A Shameful ActThe Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility Taner Akçam Metropolitan Books, $30, 496 pp.
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