Dispute Heats Up between Germany and Turkey over Contested Artifacts - SPIEGEL ONLINE:
German museums and archaeologists fear that Turkey is punishing them for not repatriating contested artifacts. In a SPIEGEL interview, Turkish Culture Minister Omer Celik explains why Turkey is demanding both the artifacts and an apology.It is well worth reading, and I for one support how they are cracking down on looted items and bad excavations - if anything, the claims made by Hermann Parzinger, president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, were "chauvinistic" ...