In late November 2023, the Financial Times wrote in an extensive story on a subject that has not been without more than its fair share of leaks these past few years, that Sir Keir Starmer, head of what was then the main opposition Labour Party, was “open” to an agreement for […]
Ioannes Chountis, an adviser in the House of Lords and a council member of the Anglo-Hellenic League, joins Thanos Davelis to break down the recent UK election results, and look at what Keir Starmer taking over at Downing Street means for the return of the Parthenon Sculptures.
Former interim British Museum director Sir Mark Jones has proposed that the Parthenon Marbles be shared between the UK and Greece.
The British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles is urging UK voters to write to their MPs to advocate for the return of the sculptures to Greece.
Popular British actor and writer Stephen Fry has compared Lord Elgin’s removal of the Parthenon sculptures from Greece to Nazi Germany stealing the Arc de Triomphe during the occupation of France.
In November 2023, the British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, canceled a meeting with his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis after the latter brought up the Parthenon Sculptures in an interview with a British media outlet.
In a dramatic twist that could only be scripted in the hallowed halls of Westminster, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has thrown the political gauntlet down with the flair of a Victorian gentleman duelist.
Dr. Irene Stamatoudi, a professor of law at the University of Nicosia and a former member of the Ministry of Culture’s Advisory Committee for the Parthenon Sculptures, joins Thanos Davelis to look at the latest intervention by a Turkish official that there is no “firman” legitimizing the removal of the Parthenon Sculptures.
One of the world’s most intractable cultural disputes is back in the spotlight after a Turkish official cast doubt on the existence of proof long cited by Britain that it had legally acquired the Parthenon Marbles , 2,500-year-old sculptures taken from the Acropolis in Athens.
The British Museum seeks “realistic solutions” for the Parthenon Sculptures and a “new relationship” with Greece, following Turkey’s intervention at a UNESCO conference when a Turkish representative claimed no Ottoman document legitimizes Lord Elgin’s actions regarding the ancient Greek sculptures.
Turkey’s spokesperson at a meeting of UNESCO’s committee for the return of cultural property denied knowledge of a written authorization allowing Britain’s Lord Elgin to sell large sections of the Parthenon’s sculptural decorations.
Greece presented its case for the return of the Parthenon Sculptures at a session of an UNESCO committee that met in Paris on 29-31 May, the Culture Ministry said on Saturday.
“You need a big fence and you also need a big door,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis commented in an interview for the British podcast “The Rest is Politics.”
The FBI is investigating the sale of what are suspected to be hundreds of artefacts from the British Museum to buyers in the United States, the BBC reported on Monday.
Greece must formally recognize the UK’s ownership of the Parthenon Marbles before any loan negotiations can proceed, stated Lucy Frazer, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom, on Wednesday.
“Any holders of Parthenon Sculptures outside Greece should return them forthwith to Athens, where they can be reunited with their brothers and sisters,” the distinguished historian of the University of Cambridge, Dr Paul Cartledge, stated in an interview with Kathimerini.
