Ottoman artifact recovered by police

Ottoman artifact recovered by police

ANKARA

Ankara police caught a smuggler who was preparing to sell an Ottoman-era celestial sphere bearing multi-lingual markings on Feb 19. The teams recovered the artifact, believed to have been used for fortune-telling, in the suspect’s residence before its sale for $1 million, said the police sources.

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