A political dimension or a cultural political dimension as a director i cannot say i dont 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 im considering that we have roughly 500000 objects you know that this is. A huge task ahead for us something that has to be done over decades really 500000 objects all and so thats an ongoing process it will take until im retiring but the important thing is somebody is doing it every day because you have to have honest i was this is said to have made a new going to close the critics on the present is an extent bush said you know i said that is ideologue vick spikes on in just music lamisil never in our field of loss exacta my dad will be a. Professor. And. All the friends you see here have been pretty good. And we wouldnt be acquiring stuff anymore the pergamon stopped acquiring in the 1930 s. 40 years before the signing of the Unesco Convention which isnt retroactive this is. So the museums collection is seemingly protected from demands for restitution but thats not the opinion in turkey specially in the city of tep young guys and why they should come. Here mr. You know seeing. That we dont at all my. Name is that down on that was. The man i should when there was a debate incident there was. A man and a leg and then say and then i said and as many people in this is from this is now you know that ive 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 970 turkey still wants them back. Its not a question of museums anymore because its 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. Heres john dowd and they can i know. Given busy im. Busy you know gunson shante can play in kent and then. Begin to d. L. Cilicia new coach of the vitriol a set weve been engaged in in on money and then i made. An agenda to shoot it in this new they are abusing in. The pillagers happened over a century ago but turkey isnt 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. 40 or so lawsuits have already been won resulting in the return of over 4000 objects. One of the special units successes is the restitution of this music of orpheus stolen in the 950. 00 s. Then purchased by the Dallas Museum of art after several years of legal wrangling the museum was obliged to return it. While believes nations like turkey have a Legal Framework to demand reparations this isnt 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 its 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 970 convention to better control private transactions a new convention adopted in 1905 the unit the 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 113 nations only 37 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 its estimated there are over a 1000000 works deposited here more than twice the number contained in the movie. This swiss establishment guarantees its clients 100 percent confidentiality its high security site is protected from theft but also from prying eyes artifacts can be stored safely here for years since before so has up a problem on the. Left you. Know i mean he can join would you like to find a not understood it should one image with one on sauce fish out when youre at the 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 and 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 2010 customs discovered in alley tons warehouse in the freeport of geneva this is 2nd century roman sarcophagus since then it has been the center of a complex legal battle. The stock of. 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Live it equivalence in more in lake claire early in this. Heavy 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 didnt go see aunt jackie man who thought they did agree. To set this exposed as short as it called the simplicity as your report did you for it so it doesnt keep as to the tumble use doc. All of a on a lot that follow the story of it with a document live only the longer to the clearly allowed one or both own them. Except that after being restored in london this or coffee because didnt return to geneva until 2009 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 2005 in september 2015 swiss justice finally ordered the repatriation of the 2nd office to turkey but tom continues to claim ownership based on a certificate delivered by the company art loss register for years that if you get positive early. Because of us buys it at sue the glare is that if it outlaws netizens these or cope what is a really really classic may see. Down of. Getting. A sucky sucky sucky do 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 wasnt stolen. Founded in london 25 years ago as a private Information Service with over 400000 listed objects art loss register who 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 an easy just in case items ever started on the register them on the database just in case they show off for sale somewhere else the most obvious examples of the surface from the National Museum of iraq in 20032000 full. And what was amazing is they were very careful and you can tell it was well planned because they went into the basement once theyd stolen everything and they destroyed all the documentation for the objects so that people would know what had been stolen unfortunately the major objects have been recorded elsewhere. There you can say actually the different words that weve entered just to help bring that up so here they were for all 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 inventer his and theres no way that objects discovered during illegal digs will ever be listed obviously thats incredibly difficult when youre looking at looted archaeological material that has been looted out of the ground it was taken out of the ground and 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 toms suck office. I wish i had a clue powers. I would say. Its weve always been very clear about what our certificates are for and they state very clearly that an item is not database and its not been registered with us but that not every theft or loss or looting event is registered with us so its 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 10 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 state 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. To strengthen the good you have to shoulder good all the more we become still fight against corruption. This fire needs heroes heroes like no who are about to refuse to 15000000 dollars brian the achievement of heroes like him to showcase by the International Ace award it shines a light on these heroes because the best way to fight a dark used to shine a light lets make the road to better place nominate your Anti Corruption here and now. The story of one of the most successful p. R. Campaigns in the us. Study after study has demonstrated that israeli perspectives dominate American Media coverage part of this can you get through your thick head is hamas a terrorist. Israel is a ship the only thing that youre going to say is what we want and if you dont say it were not going to speak it would be very hard for ordinary americans to know that theyre being deceived the occupation of the American Mind and ill just 0. 33. 00 prime ministers and still close ranks with the october 31st departure deadline looming and the e. U. And u. K. Professors square off in brussels was will Boris Johnson to do next followed the brics it summit on aljazeera. I am. Im stan grant in doha the top stories on aljazeera the Un Human Rights Office is calling on turkey to conduct independent investigations into possible war crimes related to whats offensive in syria saying its gathering information about summary executions shown in videos the us has imposed sanctions on ankara and plans to send Vice President mike pince to turkey tell strike that has this update from mexico city near turkeys border with syria. Its been quite heavy turkish artillery fire in the last couple of hours close to here but the big potential flashpoint is a town called man base which is to the west of here we understand the Turkish Military has now entered that town and were getting reports from Turkish Forces that they are moving closer to it from the north big concerns there that there could well be a confrontation where right the 2 respective armies we understand that moscow is doing all it can to try and avoid some sort of confrontation there meanwhile were getting reports of ongoing clashes to the east of here in the town of. A town that both sides have declared victory in in the last couple of days and were also hearing from turkish authorities that at least 2 people have been killed in what they describe as mortar far fired a brierly s. D. F. Forces theyre also saying that there could be as many as 14 other people injured south africas former president jacob zuma has appeared in court facing 16 charges of corruption but the case has now been adjourned until next year zoom is accused of taking 267000. 00 in bribes from a french arms manufacturer he denies any wrongdoing boating is underway in mozambiques general election that could see the governing for labor party extend its decades long rule the vote is taking place 2 months after the signing of a peace deal with longtime rival the opposition bernama Party President felipe own you see he is seeking a 2nd term but he faces a strong challenge from ramos assume. The number of People Killed in japan from typhoon has written risen to 68 as rescuers search for those who are still missing thousands of people are in Evacuation Centers with many homes left without water and electricity those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after hour traffic. With the absence of common legislation and with skyrocketing prices trafficking has taken on industrial proportions. That it will be in the majority they have been initially very good but there isnt a link there this blows even i didnt meet them look it up but. Im a journalist and repeat this story to others a lot dont be surprised at the sec it just that out of the sec at the argument and in the race at the bus that if you know if your general telling you dont know is that the teacher there that us these players are callous to complain that. 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 or 100 fold on one of them we found this clay nail probably from a rock officially this type of object has been banned from sale since 2004 but on these platforms no one cares about origin export licenses or legal documents its the final stage of what has become global trafficking. Believed to be the 3rd highest illegal trade in the world antiquities trafficking was rarely in the public eye and. 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. On any i being here oh me me me me me me let me. Ask you who. Music did tweet music. The music. The discussion on your high i. Q. About i gather. By me and. The talk of. The age of the tweet. Produced song battle of the. I dont going to come i said petition that cmon there demented he said you have. The states 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 credit a least now and again my goodness which i should not stay said that they did and that to secure it that through said maddon at took until 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 15 years i come 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 attend the meeting including Richard Stengel representing the Us Government who would launch the offensive or you might we just dont go and essentially has to. Be department. Also why. Are you going to. Good evening im delighted to be here. What weve seen over the last year is i saw as weaponization of information and the cultural destruction that theyre 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 burying or selling an artifact is where finances the beheadings of muslims in the middle east. Dont sal thats one quick solution. You know by now selling is a very good slogan its obviously impossible to completely police it and to be certain about it. One of the things that weve seen is that isolates using existing criminal markets that have existed over 102030 years in the region or 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 2011 at the outbreak of the countrys civil war is headed by syrian archaeologist. According to information gathered by absa eisel isnt the only armed group plundering sites in syria all the actors in the conflict are to blame too