 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Muna August 1988, Akçam akatanga kushanda somutsvakurudzi wezvesayenzi paHamburg Institute for Social Research achitevera kukokwa kwakaitwa nenyanzvi yeIran Hadi Ressesade. Ressesade, uyo akanga achidzidza nezvokutambudzwa muIran, akakarakadza kuti Akçam aite chidzidzo pamusoro pokutambudzwa muTurkey. Akçam akasarudza kudzidza vaArmenia pashure pokunge asangana nomuchengeti wemabhuku wokuGermany wechiLebanese-Armenian, uyo akamukurudzira kuita kudaro. Muna 1991, akaronga musangano pamusoro peOttoman Military Tribunal iyo yakatonga mhosva dzeArmenian genocide. Iye gare gare akayeuka, Sezvo ndakafambira mberi mukuverenga kwangu kwokuponda kwaAbdul Hamid, ndakafunga kuti: Ndinoziva nhau yeRevolution yeFrance, yeRussia muna 1917, yeChinese Communism, asi handizivi nhau yeTurkey. Pakutanga Akçam akanga asingadi kushandisa shoko rokuti genocide nokuda kwechisimba chinorwisana neArmenian, nokuti nokuchiti ihondo yerudzi iwe unova nhengo yeboka rinobatanidzwa kune mhosva, kwete mhosva ipi neipi asi kune mhosva huru. Akagamuchira PhD yake kubva kuLeibniz University Hannover aine rondedzero yakanzi, Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide: On the Background of the Military Tribunals in Istanbul between 1919 and 1922. 