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Turkey hub for Daesh-looted historical relics: Russian UN envoy
[Iran Press TV] The southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep has become a hub for selling antiques and artifacts stolen by the ISIS terrorist group from Syria, says Russia’s permanent UN ambassador.ISIS’s annual illegal income from the sales of stolen historical relics reaches nearly 200 million dollars, Vitaly Churkin said in a letter presented to the UN on Wednesday. He stressed that most of the artifacts are sold on the black market after being smuggled into ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... from Syria. "Those pieces of antiques are sold through auctions illegally on websites and through local markets," Churkin added. Thousands of internationally recognized archaeological sites are still held by the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorists, nine of which are present in the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage List, he noted. Posted by: Fred 2016-04-07 |
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