5 Quotes by Taner Akçam

As a rule, if a crime is committed by one group against another ethnic or religious group, it is nearly impossible for the perpetrator to punish itself.

No actions by gangs or individuals can justify the deaths of eight hundred thousand people.

In general, those who resort to mass murder on a collective scale always put forward the justification that they acted on behalf of the nation.

The attempt to justify and rationalize the death of a whole nation, including women, children, the old and infirm, must itself be considered a crime against humanity.

In a report dated 20 February 1894, French ambassador Paul Cambon describes a high-ranking Turkish official telling him that "the Armenian question does not exist, but we shall create it.