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by **bill cobbett** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 10:42 pm

Erdogan has claimed that various antiquities in the possession of a number of museums in France be made over to Turkey.

A claim that is made all the richer of course by the theft by the Turkish Army and Turkey's Occupation Regime of thousands of irreplaceable Christian religious pieces from the Churches of the Occupied Areas, with never a word of apology from the government of Turkey.

Story at... http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=hab ... leID=79797

by **Cap** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 10:55 pm

bill cobbett wrote:Erdogan has claimed that various antiquities in the possession of a number of museums in France be made over to Turkey.

A claim that is made all the richer of course by the theft by the Turkish Army and Turkey's Occupation Regime of thousands of irreplaceable Christian religious pieces from the Churches of the Occupied Areas, with never a word of apology from the government of Turkey.

Story at... http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=hab ... leID=79797

'Antiquities ' :lol:

Anything coming out of the O**oman stain on humanity should be destroyed or kept in a holocaust museum.

by **ZoC** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 11:04 pm

good. wondered when we could get the french on board with the push for liberation...

by **bill cobbett** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 11:07 pm

ZoC wrote:good. wondered when we could get the french on board with the push for liberation...

Yeh, they threw a bit of a wobbly with a call for negotiations on the gas a day or two ago... got to work on them.

by **ZoC** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 11:09 pm

bill cobbett wrote:
ZoC wrote:good. wondered when we could get the french on board with the push for liberation...

Yeh, they threw a bit of a wobbly with a call for negotiations on the gas a day or two ago... got to work on them.

seems wierdogan's doing all the work for us.

by **kurupetos** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:44 am

Erdogan should launch a rescue mission to save them. :lol:

It's all part of Davutoglu's plan to end the Kemalism era and revive the Ottoman Empire. Even little things, like this one, matter. :wink:

by **repulsewarrior** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 8:32 am

...i fear the popcorn that's yet to come.

by **AWE** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 12:36 pm

Is this the same as Greece asking for the Parthenon Marbles back?

The tiles currently in French collections once decorated the tombs of Selim II and Murat III, as well the library of Mahmut I. Turkish authorities allege that the French archaeologists who were tasked with restoring the tiles in the 1880s instead secretly shipped them to France, amassing an extensive tile collection and sending the Ottoman government fake tiles in their place.

Suspicions that the real tiles were held in museums in France were first aroused in 2003 when a number of tiles, which were suppose to have been restored in France, were examined and removed by archaeologists during the restoration of Selim II's tomb. "They were made in Paris according to the writing on the back of the tiles," Ministry of Culture and Tourism Cultural Heritage and Museums (KVMGM) General Director Murat Süslü, told Cihan news agency. He added: "An investigation was launched when this was discovered. It was determined that all of the tiles were sent without permission to Paris and fake ones were brought and put in their place."

http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=hab ... leID=79797

It would appear not.