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Taner Akçam

1953 - Today

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Altuğ Taner Akçam (born 1953) is a Turkish-German historian and sociologist. During the 1990s, he was the first Turkish scholar to acknowledge the Armenian genocide, and has written several books on the genocide, such as A Shameful Act (1999), From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide (2004), The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity (2012), and Killing Orders (2018). He is recognized as a "leading international authority" on the subject. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Taner Akçam has received more than 186,461 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Taner Akçam is the 395th most popular historian (down from 353rd in 2019), the 941st most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 1,020th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Turkish Historian.

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  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Taner Akçam ranks 395 out of 561. Before him are Stepanos Asoghik, Cyril Toumanoff, Dino Compagni, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Serhii Plokhy, and Michael Aris. After him are Jerónimo Zurita y Castro, Gottfried Arnold, Martin van Creveld, Agnes Arber, Gerhard Ritter, and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr..

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Taner Akçam ranks 287. Before him are Hamilton Mourão, Artūras Paulauskas, Lorenzo Serra Ferrer, Ken Davitian, Nicolas Schmit, and Nancy Huston. After him are Glykeria, Mary Harron, Józef Młynarczyk, Patti Scialfa, Carole André, and Jacques Villeneuve.

Others Born in 1953

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Taner Akçam ranks 941 out of 1,347. Before him are Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan (1852), Hasan Saka (1885), Afife Jale (1902), Oğuz Atay (1934), Levon Shant (1869), and Mahmut Atalay (1934). After him are Ergin Ataman (1966), Zabel Sibil Asadour (1863), Murat Yıldırım (1979), Ahmet Mithat (1844), Georgios Orphanidis (1859), and Mithat Bayrak (1929).

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Among HISTORIANS In Türkiye

Among historians born in Türkiye, Taner Akçam ranks 19. Before him are Philostorgius (368), Matthew of Edessa (1100), Constantine Lascaris (1434), Halil İnalcık (1916), Charles Barbier de Meynard (1826), and Cadmus of Miletus (-500). After him are Constantine Paparrigopoulos (1815), Sirarpie Der Nersessian (1896), Cyril Mango (1928), and Soner Cagaptay (1970).

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