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13:02, April 27, 2015

Following is the statement made by Taner Akçam at the Armenian Genocide Centennial Commemoration in New York's Time Square on April 26. 

On this, a day laden with great urgency and historical meaning, I would like to thank you for allowing me to appear with you and to share your grief and sorrow. 

Today does not merely mark the centennial of the annihilation of some 1.5 million Armenians; it also marks a century of denial of this crime. The Turkish government continues to deny not merely any responsibility for the horrors inflicted upon Armenian people, but even the fact that it happened at all. As a Turk, it is from this fact that my sorrow and great shame derive.  Read more... (1199 words)

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