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Syria Accuses Turkey of Letting Looters Get Away With Loot

VISUAL Posted: March 19, 2014 12:39 am

The Assad government’s culture ministry says that its neighbor is “turning a blind eye to the systematic looting of the country’s cultural heritage. Illicit digging at archaeological sites is ‘fierce’, antiquities stores have been raided by armed gangs, and foreigners, from Turkey in particular, are smuggling hundreds of objects across its borders, Syria claims.”

VISUAL Published: 03.17.14

Read the story in The Art Newspaper Published: 03.17.14

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