The book's title refers to a statement by Mustafa Kemal in which he called the deportation of Armenians a "shameful act". Kirkus Reviews concluded that the book is "of profound importance to history-and certain to stir up nests of hornets." It received the 2007 Minnesota Book Award for General Nonfiction. Kirkus Reviews stated that the author "is unsparing in his evidence, including proof that Turkish officials who refused to obey murderous orders were themselves murdered." Bass wrote in The New York Times that the "dense, measured and footnote-heavy book poses a stern challenge to modern Turkish polemicists". Īkçam states in the book that the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) orchestrated the genocide out of fear of losing additional territory during World War I. Paul Bessemer translated content from the original Turkish for the 2006 English translation, and Zoryan Institute members Julie Gilmour and George Shirinian revised the raw translation. A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility ( Turkish: İnsan Hakları ve Ermeni Sorunu, İttihat ve Terakki'den Kurtuluş Savaşı'na) is a 1999 book by Taner Akçam about Armenian genocide denial, originally published in Turkish.
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