Letter: The past in ruins

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I should have more sympathy with Turkey's efforts to recover artefacts from abroad ('Turkey takes on a Herculean task', 6 April) if I felt confident they would be properly cared for when returned.

Early this year I visited the extensive and well-excavated ruins of the 6th-century church of St Polyeuktos in central Istanbul. The site was utterly neglected and part was being used, quite openly, as a shooting range for air rifles.

Yours faithfully,

CLIFFORD JERMEY

London, N12

7 April

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