Turkey must admit its own history if it wants to be part of civilized world, Altuğ Taner Akcam, a Turkish historian and sociologist, told NEWS.am, commenting on Turkey being unwilling to admit the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915.
According to him, Turkey is not the authoritarian country it used to be – the country is on its way to democracy. Akcam stated that the issue of Armenian Genocide must not be made a card in the superpowers’ hands.
Taner Akcam is participating in an international conference on genocide, particularly on the Armenian Genocide, in Armenia.
Taner Akcam is one of the leading Turkish academics that recognized the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915. Since 1978, he has been living in Germany, where he has political refugee status.
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