06.05.2021 11:56
Objects include 37 coins, 2 arrowheads, ring; suspect detained.
At least 45 historical artifacts were seized and a suspect was held for smuggling in Turkey's southern province of Kahramanmaras on Thursday, security officials said.
The provincial gendarmerie command received a tip-off that a suspect was scanning the ground with a detector in a neighborhood.
In the operation to round up the suspect, the security personnel also seized 37 coins, two arrowheads, a ring as well as five other objects of historical value.
While the suspect, identified by the initials F.Y., was taken to the police department after a health check-up; the artifacts will be sent to the Museum Directorate of Kahramanmaras.
*Writing by Dilan Pamuk in Ankara -