[nickcarraway]

Controversy over alleged Ottoman remains

Human remains expert Dr Issa Surei countered claims made earlier in the week, saying on Friday that skeletons unearthed near Nablus were not Ottoman soldiers.

The bodies were found in a cave near Aqaba village on Thursday, and initial investigations suggested they were Ottoman soldiers slain by British troops in 1918, the Jerusalem-based Turkish news network TRT-Turk said.

Further investigations revealed, according to Surei, that the burial area dated back not to the late Ottoman period, but as far back as the Roman and Byzantine empires.

No helmets or clothes were found in the cemetery to support the initial claim that the remains were Ottoman, Surei added.

Dr Hamdan Taha, from the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, said investigations by his own team revealed that there could be as many as 50 skeletons at the grave sight, far more than originally thought.

Turkish officials inspect scene

On Friday, Deputy governor of Nablus Anan Atira met with a Turkish delegation including Turkish representative to the Palestinian Authority Shakir Tulner, and visited the Aqaba cave where the remains were found.

Atira told the delegation that she and teams from the ministry of antiquities had received directives from President Mahmoud Abbas to examine the remains thoroughly.

All of the relevant representative bodies were contacted, Atira said, and experts continued to work to conclusively identify the remains.

[Slings and Arrows]

Has the UN blamed Israel yet?

[Pontiac]

The remains of 18 soldiers belonging to the Ottoman Empire have been found in the West Bank, the Turkish TRT and Palestinian Ma'an news agencies reported Thursday.

No helmets or clothes were found in the cemetery to support the initial claim that the remains were Ottoman, Surei added.

With no uniforms how did they ever get the idea that they soldiers let alone Turkish?

[IYellAtMyTV]

Ping

[denydenydeny]

...at the grave sight

I hate spell-checkers.

[SunkenCiv]

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