{"id":61719,"date":"2012-12-26T20:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=61719"},"modified":"2012-12-26T20:02:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T18:02:41","slug":"turkey-to-push-for-return-of-stolen-artefacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/12\/26\/turkey-to-push-for-return-of-stolen-artefacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey to push for return of &#8216;stolen&#8217; artefacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-61721\" alt=\"hurriyet-m\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hurriyet-m.jpg\" width=\"345\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hurriyet-m.jpg 345w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/hurriyet-m-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/>Western museums are in a &#8220;panic&#8221; over the repatriation of &#8220;stolen&#8221; artefacts to Turkey, the country\u2019s Culture and Tourism Minister Ertugrul Gunay has said, adding that he hopes regional neighbours also reclaim their ancient treasures.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey will continue putting pressure on museums, especially many in Western Europe, to return the country\u2019s illegally removed ancient treasures, Culture Minister Ertugrul Gunay has warned.<\/p>\n<p>Gunay told the Hurriyet Daily News that Ankara\u2019s new art repatriation policy has caused \u201cpanic\u201d among Western museums, but that the effort had been largely successful and would continue. He added that the he hoped Greece, Iraq and Syria would also act to recover &#8220;stolen&#8221; art.<\/p>\n<p>via Turkey to push for return of &#8216;stolen&#8217; artefacts &#8211; FRANCE 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western museums are in a &#8220;panic&#8221; over the repatriation of &#8220;stolen&#8221; artefacts to Turkey, the country\u2019s Culture and Tourism Minister Ertugrul Gunay has said, adding that he hopes regional neighbours also reclaim their ancient treasures. Turkey will continue putting pressure on museums, especially many in Western Europe, to return the country\u2019s illegally removed ancient treasures, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":61721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2939],"tags":[5651],"class_list":["post-61719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultureart","tag-antiquities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}