Taner Akçam, Turkish sociologist and historian

Taner Akçam

Turkish-German historian and sociologist (born 1953)

Altuğ Taner Akçam is a Turkish-German historian and sociologist. During the 1990s, he was the first Turkish scholar to acknowledge the Armenian genocide, and has written several books on the genocide, such as A Shameful Act (1999), From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism…