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...Over the past decade, inflation has been a minor threat compared with brutal deflationary shocks. They started with the collapse of the Mexican peso in the mid-1990s. In 1997, much of eastern Asia's flourishing economy was leveled. Next were Russia, Turkey and Argentina; Brazil teetered on the brink. By early 2001, Silicon Valley, the pride of the U.S. economy, was crashing, while entire sectors of the so-called New Economy disintegrated...
...theft might have gone unnoticed but for an anonymous tip-off to a government official in Usak, the town in western Turkey where the artifacts originated and were housed in a small museum. By the time officials had called in experts to authenticate the artifacts, the objects were long gone, disappearing via middlemen in Istanbul into a global smuggling network, culture ministry officials said. Interpol is on their trail...
...heist was a wake-up call for Turkey, with its rich storehouse of antiquities, and has helped expose the shoddy state of museums across the country. Culture minister Atilla Koc last week ordered a nationwide inventory of museums. Several institutions are now being investigated for losses. The inquiry has already produced results; the manager of the depot at another Turkish museum in south-central Turkey was arrested Tuesday after 545 ancient coins were switched with fakes on his watch...
...Supporters of repatriation argue that theft alone isn't reason enough to give up the fight to return such important cultural artifacts to their rightful birth places. "Of course museums like those in Turkey need to be improved and more people need to have access to these works," says Gul Pulhan, a Yale-educated Near Eastern archeologist and assistant professor at Istanbul's Koc University. "But the solution is not to insist on this idea that richer nations are more entitled to these artifacts...
...Amnesty report cites instances where seven European nations - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey, Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Sweden and Great Britain - helped the CIA in the rendition of 13 terror suspects. "All involve men being bundled onto planes and transferred abroad, without due process, to places of detention where they have suffered abuse," Amnesty charges...