Boy George returns Christ icon to Cyprus church
photo from the BBC
He bought it from an art dealer years ago, but it turned out to be one of the artworks stolen from the Turkish side of the island, where Turkish authorities looked the other way when over 500 churches were looted of their art...BBC also links to the 2002 story of "one of the most systematic examples of the looting of art since World War II."
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