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Construction at the Mugrabi Gate (Tomer Appelbaum / BauBau) del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 13:37 16/11/2007 Report: Turkish mission to call on Israel to stop Mugrabi dig By DPA tags: Turkey, Israel, Mugrabi Gate  A Turkish mission sent to Israel to inspect controversial work by Israeli archaeologists at the Mugrabi Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem will advise that all work should stop immediately and that Palestinians must be consulted before any further work goes ahead, according to a report published Friday in the English-language newspaper Today's Zaman. "The archaeological excavation at the Mugrabi pathway, which involves various traces of the Umayyad, Ayyubid, Mameluke and Ottoman periods, must be discontinued immediately," Today's Zaman on Friday quoted from the as yet unreleased report. The Turkish mission visited the site in March to inspect work on an entrance to the mosque and excavations in the area. The archaeological work had led to protests across the Muslim world with protesters claiming that Israel was illegally interfering with one of the holiest sites in Islam. Advertisement Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered to send the mission to Jerusalem, an offer accepted by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert who said at the time that Israel had nothing to hide. Instead of reassuring suspicious Muslims the report is clearly critical of Israeli work on the site. "The tunneling and excavation work and the large amount of soil extraction shown to our mission along the Wailing Wall give the impression that this is an intervention of great scale and depth and that this intervention goes beyond scientific purpose," the report said. The Turkish mission was very critical of what it described as a "systematically implemented effort to destroy values associated with cultural assets of the Ayyubid, Mameluke and Ottoman periods." Related articles: Turkish mission to investigate Mugrabi ascent Temple Mount dig / Ankara to the rescue Bookmark to del.icio.us Deteriorating ties The ex-Vatican envoy to J'lem says Israel has broken many promises. Neither here nor there A study shows Jewish poverty rate in the U.S. is higher than in Israel.   1.   Shut up Turkey - At least give a real reason 15:17  |  B`Galil 16/11/07   2.   TURKEY: A QUISLING IN THE PACK 15:22  |  W.Ankers 16/11/07   3.   Turkey is trying to pressure Israel 15:40  |  * BEN JABO 16/11/07   4.   THATS RICH 15:53  |  Avi 16/11/07   5.   Classic Israeli responses 16:14  |  Goldberg 16/11/07   6.   Archaology 101 16:15  |  Richard S 16/11/07   7.   airchohlogy 16:29  |  petrie -dish too 16/11/07   8.   richard s-racist archeology 16:54  |  keep it factual 16/11/07   9.   Richard, b`Galil - try the FACTS 16:59  |  Goldberg 16/11/07   10.   Outside excavation not ok, but on Temple Mount its permitted? 17:05  |  Jon 16/11/07   11.   As long as... 17:51  |  Josh 16/11/07   12.   You Got It Right, Jon, So Much For the Turkish "Friends" 17:53  |  massaraksh 16/11/07   13.   censorship on archeology? 18:24  |  tut tut 16/11/07   14.   Mughrabi dig 19:24  |  Axel 16/11/07   15.   haaretz-apology 22:48  |  tut tut 16/11/07   16.   Is Turkey still demanding a Monument to its WW1 Soldiers 08:39  |  Genuine Tosefta 17/11/07   17.   Goldberg you are wrong, I objected from the beginning 08:42  |  Genuine Tosefta 17/11/07   18.   What if Israel investigated Turkish digs in Constantinople 08:45  |  Genuine Tosefta 17/11/07   19.   Interesting, they did not find traces of Jewish, Christian, Roman 08:46  |  Genuine Tosefta 17/11/07   20.   What cultural assets of the Ayyubid, Mameluke & Ottoman periods? 08:50  |  Genuine Tosefta 17/11/07   21.   tosefta arcrologist of late 09:55  |  kenyon-not grand 17/11/07

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