Aurelia Posted May 3, 2009 Report Share Posted May 3, 2009 Very sad to read about old monasteries being used as sheep pens... http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domesti...34871.asp?scr=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Neil Posted May 3, 2009 Report Share Posted May 3, 2009 This is very sad indeed. It is however nice to see that the Turks have set up an agency to investigate this. Closer to home, I see exactly the same thing going on here. One of the local farms is built into a small 14th century castle which has a modest, low curtain wall. The curtain wall, low and crumbling visibly by the year, is used as... a sheep pen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Favonius Cornelius Posted May 18, 2009 Report Share Posted May 18, 2009 The Turks are some of the worst in the world, right next to the Chinese, who have a remarkable disregard for history and archaeology. Over the last 10 years at least I've read countless articles of Byzantinian sites being destroyed for the smallest of reasons. You know why too: different religion, intolerance and ignorance, and an effort to forget the past in exchange for the now. What gets me is when countries like these get all upset that someone from another country has a historical artifact. Fact is, if it was not for that collector then some priceless history would not exist today, as with much of China Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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