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SÖYLEDİKLERİ VE YAZDIKLARI<br />

The Armenian Issue<br />

Gündüz Aktan conducted important work on the Armenian<br />

issue. His contributions to the tackling of the issue from the<br />

perspecti<strong>ve</strong> of international law are particularly noteworthy. His<br />

work on racism and human rights provided the grounds for a<br />

legal approach to the Armenian issue.<br />

Gündüz Aktan asserted that research and publications that<br />

approach the Armenian issue from a legal perspecti<strong>ve</strong> are limited<br />

in number, while adequate historical research is being made. He<br />

further argued that the act of genocide as claimed by Armenians<br />

was the biggest international crime defined, and a legal issue<br />

from this perspecti<strong>ve</strong>. And when tackled from a legal perspecti<strong>ve</strong>,<br />

Aktan provided legal and historical proof that the acts of genocide<br />

or crimes against humanity did not occur.<br />

Gündüz Aktan argues that the Armenian deportation was a<br />

legitimate act by the Ottoman state. Aktan mentions that the<br />

Armenians at the time were a political group with political<br />

agendas who were not under the protection of Article 2 of the<br />

Genocide Con<strong>ve</strong>ntion. He explains that there was no moti<strong>ve</strong> or<br />

deliberate action to commit genocide against the Armenians, but<br />

that the act in question was a forced exile with defense and<br />

military reasons. Aktan also asserts that the deportation did not<br />

extend to all Ottoman Armenians, and that far more Turks had<br />

lost their li<strong>ve</strong>s than Armenians during the incidents.<br />

Gündüz Aktan<br />

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