An surprising ally Greece present in subject of the Parthenon Sculptures. THE Zeynep Bozhead of the Anti-Smuggling Division of the Ministry of Tradition and Tourism of Turkey, not too long ago made an vital intervention in favor of our nation on the Unesco Summit on the difficulty of Sculptures.
Within the archives of Turkey there isn’t a official doc exhibiting that the Ottoman State offered the Parthenon Sculptures to Englandmentioned Zeynep Boz, to the ERTNews correspondent in Turkey, Yannis Mandalidis, repeating the place she had formulated just a few days in the past on the twenty fourth Session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Fee for the Return of Cultural Property to the Nations of Origin (ICPRCP).
He additional emphasised that, when the British aspect claimed to the Synod that Lord Elgin purchased the Parthenon Marbles on the time with authorized permission from the Ottoman State, “we weren’t satisfied by what we have been informed in regards to the legality of the Ottoman aspect’s acquisition.” exactly as a result of, as he says, there isn’t a official doc within the Turkish archives to show this declare.
Referring to the doc offered by the British aspect as proof that the Sculptures have been legally given to Elgin, Zeynep Boz mentioned: “We’ve got to think regarding it this fashion: If in the present day we take a chunk of paper and write one thing and do not signal it someway, if we do not it has some quantity, seal or one thing related and if that is discovered following 200 years, it should in all probability simply be a textual content written on a chunk of paper. The identical applies to this doc. It has nothing official, no seal, no signature or signature of the Sultan, nothing. A doc translated into Italian.’
The Turkish official identified that she herself has served on this place for 18 years, throughout which she has seen many outcomes of investigations, Turkish and international. “Nevertheless, regardless of all of the analysis completed within the archives, I do know that there isn’t a firman that allowed the removing of the Parthenon Marbles. Clearly, and because of this it’s troublesome for me to assume {that a} doc and not using a signature, and not using a seal is legitimate.’
For assist of Turkey within the matter of the repatriation of the Sculptors famous how “we at all times assist Greece, each within the subject of the return of the Parthenon Marbles and the prevention of the smuggling of cultural works”, as “the 2 nations at all times assist one another and so we additionally expressed our assist and mentioned that we we shouldn’t have in our fingers any official doc to substantiate this declare”.
In addition to, as he identified, “Turkey has been supporting the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece for a few years. Sure, the battle towards the smuggling of cultural works is a typical aim of the 2 nations. That is true. These two nations have at all times had a non-political method to combating the smuggling of cultural items. I can verify this reality. I’ve been doing this job for a few years. We’ve got at all times supported one another on this widespread supreme, whatever the conditions, the circumstances that surrounded us – in stopping the smuggling of cultural works and the return of cultural works that have been faraway from their nation illegally.”
In conclusion, the top of the Anti-Smuggling Division of the Turkish Ministry of Tradition put her personal private contact on the matter of reuniting the Parthenon Sculptures: “I look ahead to the day when the Parthenon Marbles will meet the sky they deserve in that the wonderful Acropolis Museum”.
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