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USF ponders the politics of the Armenian Genocide listen

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Tags: genocide, Armenian Genocide, Taner Akcam, Turkey, Clark University, Ottoman Empire, transitional justice, reparations, War, University of South Florida, USF Library, USF

When a country deals with a dark chapter in its past, like genocide, there are questions about reparations for people directly and indirectly affected. At the USF Library, Taner Akcam gave the keynote speech in a symposium hosted by USF libraries Holocaust and Genocide center on the denial of the Armenian Genocide and the Turkish national security policy of Turkey.

Akcam is a professor of Armenian g...