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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 172,189 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Taner Akçam is the 353rd most popular historian (down from 287th in 2019), the 1,022nd most popular biography from Turkey (down from 935th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Turkish Historian.

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  • 170k

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  • 46.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Taner Akçam ranks 353 out of 339. Before him are Riane Eisler, Henri Grégoire, Alain Daniélou, Cyril Toumanoff, David Marshall Lang, and Heinrich Ewald. After him are Frances Yates, Boris Rybakov, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Patricia Crone, Peter Gay, and Mikhail Artamonov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Taner Akçam ranks 273. Before him are Nelo Vingada, Kurt Fuller, Zoran Filipović, Ken Davitian, Vesna Pusić, and Esther Hayut. After him are Pia Zadora, Pat Torpey, Kim Gordon, Antoine de Caunes, Eric Bogosian, and Ching Siu-tung.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Taner Akçam ranks 1,022 out of 1,301. Before him are Kenan Doğulu (1974), Çolpan İlhan (1936), Seyla Benhabib (1950), Neslihan Atagül (1992), Kayahan (1949), and Levon Shant (1869). After him are Stefanos Skouloudis (1838), Murat Karayılan (1954), Çağatay Ulusoy (1990), Sibel Can (1970), Theodotus I of Constantinople (null), and Nigâr Hanım (1856).

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Among HISTORIANS In Turkey

Among historians born in Turkey, Taner Akçam ranks 23. Before him are Philostorgius (368), Agatharchides (-208), Michael Attaleiates (1021), Constantine Lascaris (1434), Halil İnalcık (1916), and Charles Barbier de Meynard (1826). After him are Sirarpie Der Nersessian (1896) and Constantine Paparrigopoulos (1815).

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