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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

AFP: Turkish bulldozers raze 1,000 years of Rom history

"Turkish bulldozers raze 1,000 years of Rom history

ISTANBUL (AFP) — Ferdi Celep sat on a sofa surrounded by the debris of his life, watching city workers empty clothes and furniture from a row of two dozen colourful houses huddled against the Byzantine battlements of Istanbul's old city.

Within hours, the last remnants of a thousand years of Rom history were wiped out by bulldozers."

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