"Talat Pasha's Killing Orders and Denial of the Armenian Genocide" - Public lecture by Taner Akçam (Kaloosdian & Mugar Chair in Armenian Studies, Clark University)

A unique feature of the Armenian Genocide has been the long-standing efforts of successive Turkish governments to deny its historicity and to hide the documentary evidence surrounding it. Denialists have claimed that there was no central decision taken by Ottoman authorities to exterminate the Armenians and that all available documents that indicate otherwise are either fake or were doctored by Armenians. In this lecture, Professor Taner Akçam (Clark University) explored how his latest research provides a major clarification of the often-blurred lines between facts and truth with regard to these events.