"Troubled RA turns Turk in effort to capture public's imagination
By Peter Aspden
Published: January 19 2005 02:00 | Last updated: January 19 2005 02:00
Considering the delicate relationship between Islam and the west, London's latest blockbuster exhibition fairly bristles with menace.
The Royal Academy's 'Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600-1600' is replete with images of violent warriors, suits of armour and bejewelled swords, telling how Turkic culture spread westward to culminate in the splendours of the Ottoman empire."
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