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Akçam, whose book’s title—“A Shameful Act”—comes from a description of the alleged genocide by Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Atat??rk, cited a number of documents, many from the official Ottoman Archives, that he said explicitly described a systematic plan on the part of Turkey’s ruling party. One document stated, “What we are talking about is the elimination of the Armenians...
Other featured books include the first Russian alphabet book, published in 1717, and a 1920’s Turkish publication for children promoting En Güzel Alfabe “The most beautiful alphabet,” or the Roman alphabet imported by Kemal Atat?...
...part of his campaign to westernize Turkey and raise literacy rates, Atat??rk lanched a massive government and publicity campaign to replace the complicated Arabic script the country had used for hundreds of years. The work bears a colorful frontispiece showing a boy and girl riding a stork, which delivers a bundle of letters to the cheerful homes below, as though the alphabet were a new baby...
...Minister of Education in the 1950s, Fahd introduced the country's first extended public school system, and since then he has quietly allowed the expansion of women's education. But he has often told friends that he is against the "Atat??rk approach," a reference to the way in which Turkey's Kemal Atat??rk outlawed the veil and traditional dress and tried to impose social reform from the top. Fahd favors the sort of grass-roots evolution that seems to be taking place in his country today...
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