akçam responded to şinasi orel and süreyya yuca's statements that "the memoirs of naim bey" was fabricated and that naim didn't exist. orel and yuca stated that the ottomans used 4 and 5 digit encryption codes rather than the 2 and 3 ones used by the documents: akçam stated that the memoirs are in fact real. he also stated that as the turkish armed forces atase archive revealed a document with the signature of naim, there was proof that naim was real, and that the ottoman archives in fact had 2 and 3 digit archival codes.