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TANER AKCAM: "I HAND MY AWARD TO MY KILLED FRIEND, HRANT DINK"
Noyan Tapan
May 08 2007
NEW YORK, MAY 8, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. Turk historian Taner
Akcam's book entitled "Shameful Deed: The Armenian Genocide and Issue
of Turks' Responsibility" was awarded the Minnesota Book prize.
As the Startribune newspaper published in the U.S. states, the
jury giving the prize to the Turk historian qualified the book as
"a progressive work" and added that Akcam with his book "presents a
challenge to denial of the genocide."
On the occasion of getting the prize, Taner Akcam, a lecturer of the
Minnesota University History Department made a speech during which
he said: "I give this prize to my killed friend Dink."
From: Baghdasarian
Noyan Tapan
May 08 2007
NEW YORK, MAY 8, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. Turk historian Taner
Akcam's book entitled "Shameful Deed: The Armenian Genocide and Issue
of Turks' Responsibility" was awarded the Minnesota Book prize.
As the Startribune newspaper published in the U.S. states, the
jury giving the prize to the Turk historian qualified the book as
"a progressive work" and added that Akcam with his book "presents a
challenge to denial of the genocide."
On the occasion of getting the prize, Taner Akcam, a lecturer of the
Minnesota University History Department made a speech during which
he said: "I give this prize to my killed friend Dink."
From: Baghdasarian