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Turkish delights exhibited for the first time ROYAL ACADEMY BLOCKBUSTER TO FEATURE TREASURES UNSEEN IN BRITAIN
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THE ROYAL Academy is to follow its blockbuster Aztecs exhibition
with a show next year dedicated to 1,000 years of Turkish culture.
Years in the planning, the exhibition Turks: A Journey Of A
Thousand Years will bring together more than 350 works, many of which
have never been seen outside Turkey.
The RA has cultivated relations with the Turkish government - and
the world-renowned Topkapi Palace Museum and Museum of Turkish and
Islamic Art in Istanbul - to gain permission to borrow works for the
show.
Highlights include 15th century paintings of warriors in battle
and a ceremonial helmet of ...
