The next time a Turkish archaeologist, nationalist, or tourist advertiser boast of their Anatolian Hittite heritage (Anatolianism-Anadoluculuk), remind them that a Turkish airstrike paid by their taxes destroyed a monument of their own Anatolian culture during the invasion of Northwest Syria. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain_Dara_(archaeological_site) in late January 2018) Moreover, according to Turkish imperialism, one day Afrin region should be inside Turkey, so they bombarded their own culture. (https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/10/23/turkeys-religious-nationalists-want-ottoman-borders-iraq-erdogan/)
Furthermore, investigations should be carried out to verify if some of the Turkish military personnel is brainwashed with terroristic ideas of Daesh-Islamic iconoclasm, which considers any image of human or animal as idolatry, that must be erased so as no prudish eyes fall into sin. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_cultural_heritage_by_ISIL) The president himself of Turkey should reform and educate some of his extremist followers, apologize for a world cultural destruction and rebuild the monument. Turkey is a founding member state of UNESCO, Talibans and Daeshies are neither a state, nor have ambition for cultural preservation regardless of religions and nations.
If self-absorbed archaeologists and lawyers worldwide continue to be silent and non-activist, the next destroyed monument will be inside your own country. Such unpunished militarists will strike again, but the one who erases the past, will be ashamed by the future.
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