"Telling a thousand-year story
By Robert Greenall
BBC News
With all eyes on Turkey's efforts to join the European Union, now would seem an ideal time for London's Royal Academy of Arts to stage what is probably the world's greatest ever exhibition of Turk art and culture.
And with the Islamic religion so much in the headlines, it is hard to ignore the fact that this is the academy's first exhibition of mostly Islamic art for over 70 years.
The exhibition presents artistic diversity from little-known civilisations
Yet the show - entitled Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600-1600 - is so far-reaching that these factors barely feature on the radar of the organisers. "
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