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Friday, May 27, 2016

How Does Turkey Appropriate The Byzantine Heritage for Itself?

Visiting the remaining Byzantine monuments in Constantinople may become unpleasant for a Greek. The reason is that by reading the texts in the labels and the context in which they are presented it becomes more than obvious that modern Turkey’s policy is to claim itself the successor to the Byzantine heritage. When I descended the


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