Judgment at Istanbul:
The Armenian Genocide Trials
Prof. Dr. Taner Akçam
Judgment at Istanbul (Berghahn Books) by Vahakn Dadrian and Taner Akçam is a new, authoritative translation and detailed analysis of the Turkish Military Tribunals concerning the crimes committed against the Armenians during World War I. In this lecture, Taner Akçam discusses the authors' new findings and the importance of these trials in the light of recent scholarship, as well as address the critiques of and attacks against the validity of the trials and documents discovered through the proceedings.
Until recently our knowledge of the trials was limited to those trials whose indictments and verdicts were published by the Takvim-i Vekâyi. Over the course of years of meticulous research, Dadrian and Akçam discovered that there were as many as sixty-two trials. In Judgment at Istanbul, they not only list these until now unknown cases but also analyze the political conditions of the time and the history of these trials. Much information appears in English in this book for the first time.
Taner Akçam is the author of From Empire To Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide and A Shameful Act: the Armenian Genocide and Turkish Responsibility. His book The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire was issued by Princeton University Press in April 2012.
February 16, 2012
NAASR Headquarters
395 Concord Avenue
Belmont, MA
Presented by:
Zoryan Institute for Contemporary Armenian Research and Documentation
Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies, Harvard University
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)