Well-known Turkish historian Taner Akcam, who is the author of numerous works on the Armenian Genocide, informed that he will write a book especially for Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan. 

In his work, Akcam will present the words spoken by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk—founder of the Republic of Turkey—about the deportations and massacres of the Armenians. 

In his article published in Taraf daily of Turkey, Akcam reflected on the term “Kurdistan,” which Erdogan had used recently in Diyarbakir city. Subsequently, the Turkish PM had stated that he was just repeating Ataturk’s policy and words used back in the 1920s.  

“Ataturk, however, made statements in the 1920s also about the deportations and massacres of the Armenians in 1915. But he did not deny the fact of the tragedy that occurred, which serving PM Erdogan is doing.    

“And [therefore] I decided to write a book for Erdogan, where I will gather Ataturk’s words about 1915,” Taner Akcam wrote, in particular.