Troy Treasures Inching Back From Exile in Greece, Germany & Russia

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 5 May 2019)

B.S. -Before Schliemann click here for a TNT report about
a Croatian Jesuit who came to Troy long before 
Schliemann.


             The new Museum of Troy in Çanakkale.

Troy Museum click here for more info.

Troy Antique City, in Çanakkale's Tevfikiye village, opened its museum
to visitors last October.  Now, the museum is anticipating the return of
Troy's treasures that were purloined by German archeologist Heinrich
Schliemann in 1873 and spirited away to Greece and Germany. During
World War II the Russians took the treasures to Russia as war booty.



Museum Director Ali Atmaca explained that "requests we've made to
the Pushkin Museum in Russia for the return of the treasures are
continuing. After the third stage of excavations, Schliemann took 8,831
works from Troy, first to Greece and then to Germany.  The works
were offered for sale to many countries but were ultimately donated
to the Berlin Museum, from where they disappeared during World War
II."

"The treasures reappeared in Russia, having been taken by the
Russians as war booty.  Our Foreign Ministry has been working hard
through diplomatic and legal channels to retrieve works taken from
Turkey.  In the last 10 years, 3,400 treasures have come back to us
as the result of these efforts.  European and other countries that don't
want to return the works have justified there refusal by saying 'where
will you display these works?'.  Now, though, this pretext is baseless
since our museum opened."


Reacting to Troy treasures possible return: "Cool."