Originally posted by Artashes
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Restorations are almost always destructive and are nowadays generally considered to be unacceptable interventions except in exceptional circumstances. A restoration is not the same as conservation, and the goal of modern conservation methods is to always preserve what is there, and not to add new things that damage or destroy what is there. "What is there" also includes the atmosphere of the place, and the traces that show the history of the monument (such as old alterations or repairs done to it, or damage that has befallen it). Restorations done purely for political reasons (the Hrant Dink Foundation is quite open about having done it for that reason) are by far the worst of all. The Hrant Dink Foundation has just used these monuments as a convenient tool to use for its own self-aggrandisement and political advancement - it never had a real concern for the actual monuments. Their website doesn't even use the Armenian name for the village, it uses the Kurdified version of it.
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