Antiquities

Turkey: US Man Gets Suspended Smuggling Sentence

in Turkey

A lawyer says an American tourist who picked up stones during a beach holiday in Turkey has received a one-year suspended sentence for attempting to […]
US tourist faces jail in Turkey for collecting beach ‘stones’

in USA

An American tourist who collected stones during a six-day beach holiday with his wife was briefly detained in Turkey and faces trial for attempting to […]
Dispute Heats Up between Germany and Turkey over Contested Artifacts

in Culture/Art, Germany

German museums and archaeologists fear that Turkey is punishing them for not repatriating contested artifacts. In a SPIEGEL interview, Turkish Culture Minister Ömer Çelik explains […]
Icelander in prison in Turkey

in Culture/Art, Iceland

Machine Translation from Icelandic to English David Orn Bjarnason, 28-year-old Icelander living in Sweden, was on Friday arrested in Turkey. Turkish authorities accuse him of […]
Dallas museum returns looted mosaic to Turkey

in Culture/Art

Posted at 6:48 pm in Similar cases Yet again, Turkey is in the news with a resolved restitution case. This time, it involves the Dallas Museum of Art. […]
Cleopatra’s half-sister found in Turkey ruins

in Culture/Art

An Austrian archeologist believes that bones found at a Turkish historical site are those of Cleopatra’s half-sister Arsinoe IV. Princess Arsinoe was murdered about 2000 years […]