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Western Prelacy Sues Getty for Stolen Illuminated Manuscripts
LOS ANGELES—A lawsuit filed against the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Getty Museum on behalf of the Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church Tuesday is demanding the return of seven pages of illuminated manuscripts created by Toros Roslin in 1256.
Attorneys for the Prelacy contend that the seven pages of the Zeytun Gospel were “lost or stolen during the Armenian Genocide.” The suit claims that the seven pages of the “Canon tables” are “wrongfully in the possession, custody,
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We should start doing same regarding our stolen properties in Turkey (Istanbul + rest) & occupied Western Armenia…
AMEN to that Vtiger.. AMEN..
We should definintely sue with force.. we have been silent too long… and hope that our attorney will win this case.. and get the manuscripts back.. this is how most of our artifacts, land, culture and heritage were taken but it is time to claim it back….
I pray to God for successful trial/win.
Gayane