WESTERN ARMENIA – TURKEY TODAY – Turkey has searched for treasure for 523 times in 5 years with the knowledge and permission of the state
04 FEBRUARY 2020 – WESTERN ARMENIA TODAY, NEWS.
“The real treasure is not on the ground, but on the ground,” says Tuma Celik, a member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly.
Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism Mehmet Nuri Ersoy has responded to a request from Tuma MP Felix, a member of the Democratic Party of Peoples (HDP), who raised the issue of excavations in the Armenian and Greek settlements of Marash in the Turkish parliament. According to Akunq.net, Turkish Bianet.org reports.
According to the source, in response to a request from Tuma Felik, Minister Ersoy stated that no information or evidence was available on the sites in question, and that archaeologist Hatice Kilicaslan had done the work after obtaining the necessary permission.
The Minister of Culture and Tourism of Turkey also stated that in the whole of 2014-2019 It has been searched for 523 times, but there is no information that it has been found.
In an interview with Bianet.org, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Zelik stressed the need to look for treasure to ban the widespread mania in Turkey, as it is suffering severe damage to historical and cultural monuments.
Celik also noted: “The ministry said in its reply letter that there were 305 buildings registered in Marash, but there were no churches or synagogues in those buildings. According to the Hrant Dink Foundation’s Cultural Wealth Map, there are at least 50 Armenian, Greek, Assyrian and Jewish cultural monuments in Marash.
If such efforts were made to preserve these treasures, the level of consciousness of protecting the structures that are part of the cultural heritage would increase. According to the data provided by the Ministry again, it is clear that no excavations were found in the excavations. The treasure is actually not on the ground but on the ground. ”
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Translated by Meline Anumyan
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