- 18 كانون أول 2020
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Istanbul - Akhbar El Balad - "sedar cam", Deputy Minister of the Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism, said that the Ministry will continue its efforts to return historical artifacts taken from Turkey. "The protection of the cultural assets of the civilizations that lived on our land is one of the basic elements of our cultural policy. That is why we will continue our efforts And our legal determination to ensure the return of our cultural assets that were smuggled out of Anatolia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and exhibited in the world's leading museums or were subject to auction.
"Sedar cam" added in his interview with " Akhbar El-Balad " that the restoration of the statue of "Cybele" is one of the joyful final results of our work in the ministry, especially the Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmed Nuri Ersoy, which resulted in the return of this masterpiece that was kidnapped in the 1960s of the last century from Turkey to Israel. The Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism had managed to foil the attempt to sell the statue, which is believed to be more than one thousand seven hundred years old, at auction in the United States of America.
The Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism had displayed the statue, which arrived on a Turkish Airlines plane, to journalists, confirming that the statue, called "Mother Goddess", which is considered a masterpiece Will be displayed in the Antiquities Museum. In Istanbul, before being transferred to his natural place, from which he left in the state of "Afyon Qara hisar".
“Our ministry, which constantly tracks artifacts, has recovered nearly 4,500 cultural assets to the lands they belong to between 2004 and 2020. Only in 2019 were they returned,” sedar cam, the Turkish Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism, told Al-Balad News. 106 Historical artifacts to Turkey. Among them: Heracles sarcophagus, Bogazkoy sphinx, winged seahorse pin, a brick panel of the Bursa Sinan Pasha mosque, Orpheus mosaic are just a few of the thousands of historical artifacts that were once kidnapped from our country but returned years later.
It is noteworthy that Western museums and the United States and other museums filled with many artifacts belonging to Turkish lands that were taken from the Anatolian region in particular, and were smuggled abroad either because of wars or due to neglect and other reasons, Anatolia is known to have the cradle of many civilizations since ancient times. Each civilization has left a great legacy on Anatolia. For this reason, there is a rich history in every corner of Anatolia.
