Apollo: "Kariye Museum in Istanbul to be turned into a mosque" - Aug 21, 2020
President Erdogan of Turkey today issued a decree to allow the Kariye (Chora) Museum to be used as a mosque. The latest decree follows one issued last month transferring the Hagia Sophia to the Religious Affairs Directorate and allowing it to be used as a mosque.
Federal Register: "Proposal To Extend Cultural Property Agreement Between the United States and Greece" - Aug 20, 2020
Proposal to extend the Memorandum of Understanding Concerning the Imposition of Import Restrictions on Categories of Archaeological and Byzantine Ecclesiastical Ethnological Material Through the 15th Century A.D. of the Hellenic Republic.
International Trade Compliance Update: "US–Nigeria requests cultural property protection under Art. 9 of the 1970 UNESCO Convention" - Aug 20, 2020
Nigeria’s request seeks US import restrictions on archaeological and ethnological material representing Nigeria’s cultural patrimony.