# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/taner-akcam
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:58:06.257Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/taner-akcam"
name: "Taner Akçam"
slug: "taner-akcam"
description: "Altuğ Taner Akçam 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. Akçam's frequent participation in public debates on the legacy of the genocide have been compared to Theodor Adorno's role in postwar Germany."
tagline: "Turkish-German historian (born 1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Taner_Ak%C3%A7am.PNG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953-10-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.87
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.37873466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2443117/"
    handle:    "nm2443117"
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    title: "Taner Akçam"
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    title: "Taner Akçam"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump