A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (Turkish: İnsan Hakları ve Ermeni Sorunu, İttihat ve Terakki'den Kurtuluş Savaşı'na) is a 1999 book by Taner Akçam about Armenian genocide denial, originally published in Turkish. Paul Bessemer translated content from the original Turkish for the 2006 English translation, and Zoryan Institute members Julie Gilmour and George Shirinian revised the raw translation. It received the 2007 Minnesota Book Award for General Nonfiction.