Summary: He’s a boy from a village near Ardahan, a “revolutionary”, then a “terrorist” in the words of the Turkish government, and now an academic - Dr. Taner Akçam is a leading historian of the Armenian Genocide. After escaping a Turkish prison, he began his research on political violence in the late Ottoman Empire and early Republic of Turkey. Dr. Akçam is the Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University. To learn more about the USC Institute of Armenian Studies visit http://armenian.usc.edu.
