Istanbul's Haghia Sophia Museum (2010 photo)
Istanbul's Haghia Sophia Museum (2010 photo)
Makes sense, get them all in one place so the Taliban can blow it up all together.
Turkey can go pound sand.
Egypt and Greece are another two countries that are ungrateful bastards.
Greece is the clearest example I can think of. The Elgin Marbles (a fascinating story there) were in the process of being ground to dust to make plaster or cement when Lord Elgin saved them by paying good money for them. If the civilied countries had not found, rescued and bought all of the ancient treasures in western museums, THEY WOULD NO LONGER EXIST!
If these idiots want to compensate for the million$ spend in organizing expeditions, building infrastructures, the REQUIRED payment to thousands of workers to rescue and restore the historical treasures, compensate for the Western lives lost, WITH INTEREST, the Western Civilized countries may consider returning the saved treasures to the clueless loser dysfunctional, not yet totally civilized countries.
Interesting. Vast majority of these “Turkish heritage” items are pre-Turkish, and the people who actually created the items would probably feel a closer cultural connection to those who have them now than to those who presently occupy their homeland.
I’m not giving back those drumsticks....or the wishbone. They can threaten me all they want....I’ll throw stuffing at them.
Somehow I don’t think the Russians are going to return the treasures from Troy which Heinrich Schliemann snuck out of Turkey during his excavations, which the Russians stole from a museum in Berlin in 1945.
Wish and demand in one hand, and **** in the other...
Screw ‘em!
How about they give Istanbul back to Western civilization...
You lost....
