- Professor of History at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
- Has dual Turkish and German citizenship.
- In the "Personal Quotes" section, Akçam provided what he called his evidence for an "Armenian genocide." As "From Smoking Gun to Muddied Waters: The Alleged Telegraph of Bahaeddin Sakir," by Sean Patrick Smyth (05.06.2017) has exposed, Akçam's claim to have discovered the document was false; it was in existence since the 1980s, and later presented by Akçam's mentor, the genocide activist Vahakn Dadrian, in 1994. The telegraph was dated not July 4, 1915, but April 21, 1915, before the alleged "genocide" began. There are other discrepancies and mistranslations, especially with words such as "liquidated." Since Armenians mostly from the war zone were being temporarily relocated given their massive rebellion and disloyalty during a life-and-death war, and what those with agendas choose to keep hidden, the telegraph (assuming it exists; the way Akçam got hold of it, as explained in the New York Times' 2017 article the quote was from, is very suspicious) could be interpreted as checking on whether Armenians were being mistreated by "troublesome individuals." The Ottoman government took 1,673 Turks and others to court during 1915-16 for harming Armenians, punishing ten percent of decided cases with execution.
- In the "Personal Quotes" section, Akçam was quoted as stating, "I'm a historian." Aside from the fact that a historian is duty-bound to choose no side except for the truth, his degree was not in history, but in sociology - which his mentor (activist Vahakn Dadrian) took pains to see through completion, with the help of a "genocide scholar" in Germany.
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