Hunting for Blood Antiquities | Explorer

I want to witness a sale of these looted
smuggled antiquities because that’s the
only way I can understand where the
stuff’s coming from how is getting out
what the kind of market is for this
stuff if I told them I was a journalist
they’d probably tell me maybe what I
might want to hear or what they think I
might want to hear or they might show me
fake stuff so the only way I can
understand and really investigate what’s
happening is to get face to face up
close and personal with these dealers
now of course that’s risky
particularly because these dealers are
very nervous they’re doing illegal
activities inside Turkey they could go
to jail so this man on the roof he said
to me look these the artifacts that are
being offered and I said to him that I
was interested in going to meet these
guys to pose as a buyer he told me such
her undertaking would be incredibly
risky and that they might kill me any
Westerner turning up there would be a
huge risk of being kidnapped and sold on
as a sort of human antiquity he actually
said that I would be worth more than the
antiquities on sale because they could
sell me offers for human cargo we’re
worth a lot simply by being a westerner
that they could get their hands on when
he told me that they might kill me if I
try and delve any deeper into what
they’re doing I sent a bit of a tingle
down my spine I was thinking wow that’s
how dodgy it is if you delve too deep
maybe you’re gonna end up
you lose your head
you