{"id":13872,"date":"2021-04-01T20:51:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T20:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golive.clarku.edu\/news\/2021\/04\/01\/taner-akcam-recognized-by-nouvelles-darmenie-magazine\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T09:48:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:48:32","slug":"taner-akcam-recognized-by-nouvelles-darmenie-magazine","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2021\/04\/01\/taner-akcam-recognized-by-nouvelles-darmenie-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Taner Ak\u00e7am recognized by Nouvelles d\u2019Arm\u00e9nie magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n            \n            <p class=\"intro news-subhead\">Clark history professor receives special jury prize for \u2018Killing Orders\u2019<\/p>\n            <p><html><body><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.clarku.edu\/faculty\/facultybio.cfm?id=722&amp;_ga=2.244668033.563832274.1617296683-2017323535.1617296683\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Read about Taner Akcam on the Clark University website\">Taner Ak&ccedil;am<\/a> has received an inaugural <a href=\"https:\/\/trophees.armenews.com\/2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Literary Trophy from <em>Nouvelles d&rsquo;Arm&eacute;nie<\/em><\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armenews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Go to News of Armenia website\">News of Armenia<\/a>). In its first-ever awards, the magazine recognized the best books of the year in four areas: history, essay, novel, and graphic novel. Ak&ccedil;am&rsquo;s 2018 work, &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/us\/book\/9783319697864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label='Go to the \"Killing Orders\" page on the Palgrave website'>Killing Orders: Talat Pasha&rsquo;s Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide<\/a>,&rdquo; which provides direct evidence of the Ottoman Empire&rsquo;s central role in the Armenian Genocide of 1915, was one of five books honored in the history category.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-15223\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021-akcam-special-award-1.jpg\" alt=\"Special award given to Taner Akcam by News from Armenia magazine\" width=\"280\" height=\"300\">&ldquo;I would like to thank them for their kindness to give me this prize,&rdquo; said Ak&ccedil;am, who is the Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marian Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/centers\/holocaust-and-genocide-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Go to the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies website\">Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies<\/a>. &ldquo;This kind of award is very valuable and very meaningful. It inspires and encourages us. It is my biggest hope that such steps contribute to Armenian-Turkish friendship.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Ak&ccedil;am has received multiple awards for his work, including <a href=\"https:\/\/massispost.com\/2019\/09\/dr-taner-akcam-to-receive-lifetime-achievement-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label='Read \"Dr. Taner Ak&ccedil;am to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award\" in the MassisPost'>Lifetime Achievement Award<\/a> from the Knights and Daughters of Vartan in recognition of his steadfast devotion to uncovering the truth behind the Armenian Genocide; the <a href=\"https:\/\/armenianweekly.com\/2019\/08\/27\/anca-ers-banquet-to-welcome-hundreds-of-activists-to-the-merrimack-valley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Go to the Armenian Weekly website to read about the Freedom Award presented to Taner Akcam\">Freedom Award<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/er.anca.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Go to the Armenian National Committee of America Eastern Region website\">Armenian National Committee of America Eastern Region<\/a> (ANCA-ER); the <a href=\"https:\/\/clarknow.clarku.edu\/2020\/02\/11\/taner-akcam-honored-with-medal-of-courage-from-armenian-organizations-in-france\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Read about the Medal of Courage award on ClarkNow\">Medal of Courage<\/a> by the Confederation of Armenian Organizations; the <a href=\"https:\/\/clarknow.clarku.edu\/2015\/02\/05\/clark-u-s-akcam-recognized-with-hrant-dink-spirit-of-freedom-and-justice-medal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Read about the Hrant Dink Spirit of Justice Medal presented to Taner Akcam\">Hrant Dink Spirit of Justice Medal<\/a>; and the <a href=\"https:\/\/clarknow.clarku.edu\/2015\/05\/28\/prof-taner-akcam-receives-heroes-of-justice-and-truth-award-during-armenian-genocide-centennial-commemoration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"Read about the Heroes of Justice and Truth award presented to Taner Akcam\">Heroes of Justice and Truth<\/a> award from the National Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide Centennial, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Ak&ccedil;am is one of the first Turkish intellectuals to acknowledge and openly discuss the Armenian Genocide. In recent years, <em>The New York Times<\/em> called him &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/22\/world\/europe\/armenian-genocide-turkey.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label='Read \"&lsquo;Sherlock Holmes of Armenian Genocide&rsquo; Uncovers Lost Evidence\" on nytimes.com'>The Sherlock Holmes of the Armenian Genocide<\/a>.&rdquo; &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/clarknow.clarku.edu\/2018\/01\/17\/historian-taner-akcam-uncovers-smoking-gun-of-armenian-genocide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label='Read about \"Killing Orders\" on ClarkNow'>Killing Orders: Talat Pasha&rsquo;s Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide<\/a>,&rdquo; includes a document &mdash; a &ldquo;smoking gun&rdquo; &mdash; that points to the Ottoman government&rsquo;s central role in planning the elimination of its Armenian population.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Killing Orders&#8221; has been translated into ten languages: German, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Russian, Persian, Arabic, 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