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Case Analysis

Case Summary and Outcome

The European Court of Human Rights held that the right to freedom of expression of a Turkish historian had been violated by the permanent threat of prosecution caused by repeated laying of criminal charges against him. The Court held that the vague and broad wording of the criminal charge of “denigrating the Turkish nation” meant that there was a continuous risk for people expressing their opinion on contentious issues as individuals we

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Akçam, Taner 1953- (Altug Taner Akçam, Taner Akcam)

PERSONAL:

Born October 23, 1953, in Ardahan, Turkey; immigrated to Germany as a political refugee, 1978. Education:Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, bachelor of administrative sciences, 1986; University of Hannover, Germany, Ph.D., 1995.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of History, University of Minnesota, 614 Social Sciences Bldg., 267 19th Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55455. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Historian, sociologist, and writer. Member of the militant group Dev Yol (Devrimci Yol-Revolutionary Path) and the editor of its periodical Devrimci Genclik Dergisi (Revolutionary Youth Magazine), c. 1970s; arrested and sentenced to prison, 1976, escaped c. 1977; Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Hamburg, Germany, research scientist in sociology, beginning 1988; Hamburg Foundation, Hamburg Institute for Social Research, staff member. Also visiting scholar at the Armenian Research Center, University of Michigan-Dearborn; visiting professor at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; and visiting

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Taner Akçam

Turkish-German historian and sociologist (born 1953)

Altuğ Taner Akçam (born 1953) is a Turkish-German historian[1] and sociologist. During the 1990s, he was the first Turkish scholar to acknowledge the Armenian genocide,[3] and has written several books on the genocide, such as A Shameful Act (1999), From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide (2004), The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity (2012), and Killing Orders (2018). He is recognized as a "leading international authority" on the subject.[4] Akçam's frequent participation in public debates on the legacy of the genocide have been compared to Theodor Adorno's role in postwar Germany.[5]

Akçam argues for an attempt to reconcile the differing Armenian and Turkish narratives of the genocide, and to move away from the behaviour which uses those narratives to support national stereotypes, saying: "We have to re-think the problem and place both societies in the centre of our analysis. This change of paradigm should focus on creating a new

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