The Armenian Genocide was recognized as a historical reality by the Pope, by the European Union and a few months ago also by Joe Biden’s America, yet in Turkey it is still denied, and if a Turkish citizen dares to talk about it, he risks jail. Taner Akçam is a Turkish historian who was sentenced to ten years in prison for his writings, which also concerned, among other things, the Armenian Genocide. Having fled to Germany, he now holds a professorship at Clark University in the United States. Among the international events of Pordenonelegge on 17 September at 3.30 pm Taner Akçam, in dialogue with Antonia Arslan, will present his book “Killing Orders” (Guerini e Associati, 2020), a dense volume of unpublished documents that add evidence to evidence .
In “Killing Orders”, the telegrams of Talat Pasha, the Turkish architect of the Genocide, are translated into Italian for the first time. Akçam accurately returns to the reader, step by step, instruction after instruction, the various stages of preparation, initiation and implementation of the planned extermination of one and a half million Armenians, mostly women and children.
Pordenonelegge, Book Festival with the Authors, is scheduled for its 22nd edition from 15 to 19 September. The author will present the book on September 17, 2021 at 3.30 pm at the Spazio San Giorgio, in dialogue with the writer Antonia Arslan. Info and details pordenonelegge.it
Taner Akçam, Killing Orders, Guerini e Associati, 312 pages, 25 euros
