A ceremony was held on Tuesday at the Byzantine Museum next to the
Archbishopric in Nicosia to mark the return of 173 religious artefacts
stolen from the occupied areas in the north. The items have been
repatriated after a long legal battle in Germany’s Munich.
The murals
and mosaics were part of a stolen collection of Turkish looter Aydin
Dikmen, found in his possession in 1997 in Munich. Most of the items had
been taken from churches in the north after the 1974 Turkish invasion.
The artefacts will be housed in the Byzantine Museum, some now bearing
signs of damage from being removed from 51 different churches.
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