says is far from unique more and more pillage countries are demanding the return of their cultural assets the trophies of the renowned museums of the western world. pillaged countries have a legal tool to negotiate for the return of their stolen treasures the nine hundred seventy unesco convention signed in june the era of de colonization imposes on all nations to return objects obtained illegally. in recent years the pressure on renowned museums has intensified. the pergamon museum the most visited in berlin is obliged to know the origins of its collections. you start to understand that what you have here is not just archaeological object but it's part of the cultural heritage of the region or of these countries and at that point you realize you're talking about

a political dimension or a cultural political dimension as a director i cannot say i don't know when somebody asked me how did your collection actually come into being so my responsibility as director of this museum is to know everything about the objects. well the key documents in this file are the ones that tell us basically that it was ok to take up the objects and this we have to do for everything and i'm considering that we have roughly five hundred thousand objects you know that this is. a huge task ahead for us something that has to be done over decades really five hundred thousand objects all and so that's an ongoing process that will take until i'm retiring but the important thing is somebody is doing it every day because you have to have i was i was this is said to have made

a new going to close the critics on the present is that extent was said you know i said that there's ideologue vick spikes on in just music lamisil never in my field of loss exacta my dad will be a. professor. and. all the friends you see here have been pretty good. and we would be acquiring stuff in the pergamon stopped acquiring in the one nine hundred thirty s. forty years before the signing of the unesco convention which isn't retroactive this is. so the museum's collection is seemingly protected from demands for restitution but that's not the opinion in turkey especially in the city of tep young guys and why they should leave me and come. forth so often i leave here mr. you know seeing. that we don't at all my. name is that the man that was the one the money was

a debate into and there was. a man and a leg and then satan and i said and as many people in this is from this is now you know that i've had. this black list includes objects on show in the british museum in london but also in the pentagon in berlin although they were all acquired before nine hundred seventy turkey still wants them back. it's not a question of museums anymore because it's a request of the state of turkey. they also are in the process of overcoming. colonial attitudes towards cultural heritage and in this process they have started to realize that. countries in the west have not always been upfront about their practices of acquiring collections begin to do yeah

savation. there is. a palooka. here's john dowd and they can. do given busy i'm. busy you know gunson shante can play in kent and then. begin to d.l. solution to the vitriol i said we didn't get it in an on line and then i made. a lead in then and it was then you should in this new they are musing in in their zen correlation don't know. the pillagers happened over a century ago but turkey isn't ready to forget. like china and italy turkey has made the restitution of its treasures a political priority. within its culture ministry the turkish government has set up a special restitution unit. forty or so lawsuits have already been won resulting in the return of over four thousand objects.

one of the special units successes is the restitution of this music of orpheus stolen in the nine hundred fifty s. then purchased by the dallas museum of art after several years of legal wrangling the museum was obliged to return it. while pillage nations like turkey have a legal framework to demand reparations this isn't the case in the private sector where only the market rules. in this antique shop window how many artifacts have a perfectly established origin in many cases it's practically impossible to verify . does the private antiquities market have its own rules immune to international legislation you know asco had

attempted to extend its nine hundred seventy convention to better control private transactions a new convention adopted in one thousand nine hundred five the unit acquired convention on stolen or illegally exported cultural objects obliges sellers to prove the legal origin of an artifact it also obliges buyers to demand proof but although the original unesco convention is recognized by one hundred thirteen nations only thirty seven party states have committed to the united wired convention. so the market is winning thriving with its own often shady rules chadian as embodied by the freeport system one of the main thoroughfares of art market

trafficking. the best known are here in geneva but the exist throughout the world free ports were originally special economic zones which stocked in transit merchandise to reduce or avoid customs duties are dealers were soon renting space in these huge warehouses to discreetly store artifacts by allowing people to store all kinds of objects without the slightest control free ports have long been considered as a hub of antiquities trafficking it's estimated there are over a million works deposited here more than twice the number contained in the movie. this swiss establishment guarantees its clients one hundred percent confidentiality its high security site is protected from theft but also from prying eyes artifacts can be stored safely here for years simple as up

a problem on the. left. and or being a no i mean more joy and would you like to find a not understood it was in zones should one misread one on source fiske out or when you have a question a t.v. are would order to keep the tax. no taxation an appealing advantage for our dealers while the works remain inside a free port they can be sold and bought without being subjected to any kind of tax customs duties are only paid once when a work definitively leaves the freeport a perfectly legal tax haven right in the heart of europe. these facilities explain why the gallery phoenix keeps most of its merchandise in

free ports in the showcases only a small part of the collection is displayed the gallery belongs to tom one of the biggest antiquities dealers in the world. in twenty ten customs discovered in alley a times warehouse in the freeport of geneva this is second century roman so cough a guess since then it has been the center of a complex legal battle. the stock of. tools will be awful you know all over to prevent thank are up on love on do i live on this on the on and off and off on the opposite of all that's not hope you bleak put on your own music. so to study this and don't. know jane i'll come problem. fesses said proposition to deny assume she miss you don't you think the jackdaw do say that i just don't want to

dip or perform a shop will add me read of get this used extraordinaire in p.s. the met can't get don't get those the large i made countdown do. in their next year on cities used to get three m. examplar good news all morning don't say i'm a modest shock silliman they more. likely steal from them what their lawyer the guild colleagues pretty near zero lead looking at their cell phone ipanema shows it in six issue and of course that the president don't know haven't. really had many on the pond on a year. mariette kids who are out there you yes just the most ridiculous who belong on get heated this is soccer first elapse of the documentation please on c n c live it equivalence in more in the clear early goodness. to jail he

faced with doubts over the objects origin the sale was finally cancelled as the so called because it was probably looted in turkey swiss authorities decided to allow it to ankara let your idea for me do cool let your key sit there. but of course if you. impose it you i didn't go see aunt jackie man who thought they did agree. to set this exposed as short as that food called the steam percent last year to put it in for it so it doesn't skip as to the tumble blues don't. all of a on a lot that follow the story of it with a document live only the longer to declare they are allowed one or both own them. except that after being restored in london the surkov occurs didn't return to geneva until two thousand and nine so the turkish lawyer heading the case believes

it comes under the new swiss law which demands every approachable origins for all works of art imported after two thousand and five in september twenty fifteen swiss justice finally ordered the repatriation of the second office to turkey but tom continues to claim ownership based on a certificate delivered by the company art loss register or for just that if you get a positive really. because of us by that suit the glare is that last night is also the door cope what is a really really classic may see. our. good it. is sucky sucky. due to a for me. what is an art loss register certificate the precious open sesame of the art market

a document which states that an object wasn't stolen. founded in london twenty five years ago as a private information service with over four hundred thousand listed objects are lost register owns the largest database of stolen artifacts in the world for a fee any buyer or seller can ask art loss register to verify that a piece is not listed on its database. these registrations these. could also be registrations from a museum just in case items ever started on the register them on the database just in case they show off for sale somewhere else in my stuff is examples of the thefts from the national museum of iraq in two thousand and three and two thousand and four. and what was amazing is they were very careful and you can tell it was well because they went into the basement once they'd stolen everything and they

destroyed all the documentation for the objects so that people wouldn't know what had been stolen unfortunately the major objects have been recorded elsewhere. they can say actually a different words that we've entered just to help bring that up so here they were drawn they were put. braided have something like that and. in the case of the baghdad museum an inventor really existed so stolen objects could be captured on to the database but in war zones very few museums keep precise invent a reason and there's no way that objects discovered during illegal digs will ever be listed obviously that's incredibly difficult when you're looking it luci don't logical material that has been looted out of the ground if it's taken out of the ground then potentially the only people that even know of its existence of the people dug it out. and yet this

certificate is widely used on the antiquities market as is the case tom's sarcophagus. i wish i had a clue powers. i would say. eight's we've always been very clear about what asa to focus off for and they state very clearly that an item is not in our database and it's not being registered with us but that not every theft or loss or looting event is registered with us say it's not complete the art loss register certificate nonetheless remains the main document supplied by a seller to prove his or her good faith a precious certificate which can multiply the price of an object by ten but why is this service provided by a private company and not by a public body at least on

a european level changes in national laws you go across an interesting nation states in the make it very difficult to resolve issues relating to stolen art in particular because suddenly limitation periods change principles of acquiring good title change is something that people take advantage of to get around the system. what makes this moment we're living so unique. we haven't seen the president this is unpredictable freedom of speech is a valid bottling plants and that is

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with the absence of common legislation and with skyrocketing prices trafficking has taken on industrial proportions. demand that it will be in the majority but the evolution is very good but there is an indictment that this bill is evil i did not meet them look it up but it will motivate the other joke among journalists and repeat this story to us a lot that the semester the second just that out of the second at the argument and in the race at the bus that if you know your general tell it you don't know is that the teacher there that us thought that these bloggers are callous to complain that as of today looters have direct access to the market all they need to do is post their object online where it can be sold anonymously in recent years the number of

websites selling archaeological artifacts has increased our hundred fold on one of them we found this clay nail probably from iraq officially this type of object has been banned from sale since two thousand and four but on these platforms no one cares about origin export licenses or legal documents it's the final stage of what has become global trafficking. believed to be the third highest illegal trade in the world antiquities trafficking was rarely in the public eye. yes it has gone unnoticed for years but footage of destruction by the islamic state of iraq and the levant isis has caused a major international commotion. only i being here oh me me me me me me lettie. you who.

music did tweet music. live music. on your hike you. see. the. me and. the. good the tweet. song battling the. going to come that c'mon demented. the state's destruction by eisel hides another reality much harder to measure mass looting. since

its founding has been suspected of part financing its activities through antiquities trafficking. see poor could it. now and again my gas would not stay said that they did and that to secure it that in the truce and madden executed it is like you think that. this was a key subject at a press conference to present the new red list published by i called the international council of museums for fifteen years i com has been publishing lists of rare objects from various countries which threaten to turn up on the international art market this time it concerned antiquities from iraq and syria suspected of financing eisel operations as proof that the subject is being taken seriously several international figures attended the meeting including richard

stengel representing the us government who would launch the offensive or you might mr region and go and is a hunter has been a department. also why. are you going to. good evening i'm delighted to be here what we've seen over the last year is i saw as weaponization of information and the cultural destruction that they're practicing is the weaponization culture so this is a destruction of history and destruction of culture and the destruction of human beings thousands of human beings at the risk of being too graphic. i would say that the buying or selling i mean artifact is where finances the beheadings of muslims in the middle east. don't sound that's one quick solution

thank you. know buying selling is a very good slogan it's obviously impossible to completely police it and to be certain about it. one of the things that we've seen is that isolates using existing criminal markets that have existed over ten twenty thirty years in the region they're using those people as middlemen to finance their operations. but how do we know what exactly is going on in the field absa the association for the protection of syrian archaeology has been recording cases of plundering in syria the association based in strasbourg and founded in twenty eleven at the outbreak of the country's civil war is headed by syrian archaeologist checked most r.t. . according to information gathered by absa eisel isn't the only armed group

plundering sites in syria all the actors in the conflict are to blame tool really with the military. will act here in moscow military talks here young strong million pound could ash or seize owing money. or you dno. more active. an example. in beyond feel me again easy. secularly please because. this is supposed to sound like your standard dodge . city in many of the many p.s.u. . us who sent us one man nashville of his top six now kumasi bjarne along with asiri. what's the extent of this trafficking and how do the local networks that supply it operate to find the answers you need to go into the field so check most makes regular visits to turkey to meet other members of his

association. early in the war as correspondents could easily cross the turkish syrian border but turkey recently closed entry into its territory. because you seem your stock of. the c.e.o. but they are. not the sessions on the piece they did tell you there live pushing it up to cover you can't walk a. whole see you. come together kitty don't actually use it on the old case for to increase never we're a you know because law suit was the best able to come up to politely to fuck you only a little easier but little quick to make an on the job lose that enticed let me know citigroup did it taste let me ask you.

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not so long ago it was still possible to cross the border and large quantities of merchandise alive here in gaza and tep sixty kilometers from the syrian border. according to several sources this turkish city is a hub for the trafficking of objects plundered by isis. push. each. doesn't have a full of antiquities stores in one window check most spots what he thinks ossified smuggled in from syria. before. that to start.

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realize that she's gone that is ron marz image i like to get that someone almost. over me. it gives them with a paltry. amount a small group. called one of these objectives as you sample it for the who you know is all if what. you vashti looks your know it could mean it won't create hope she will be squashed sure because it wouldn't be on speed equalisation maybe only peña nieto level of a nice home in northern. europe it will. react to treat you don't want your blood to the drug. as you put those desert dish announced monday devotees. kitty i think in the oven and i said then.