"Elle Turkey’s Fashion Faux Paus Stirs Controversy
Culture Vulture — By Liana Aghajanian on January 20, 2011 2:55 am
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Elle Turkey’s December editorial spread in which models Ana Zalewska and Karolin Machova prance through and pose in the now ruined and abandoned Armenian city of Ani has been met with criticism from Armenians angry at the use of the 5th century medieval capital whose population was slaughtered by Seljuk Turks and now has been identified as one of the 12 worldwide sites most “On the Verge” of irreparable loss and destruction according to the Global Heritage Fund."
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