Stolen relics from Turkish-occupied north Cyprus were displayed today at the Byzantine Museum. Among them was a 14th century Armenian Gospel which was stolen in 1963 from Sourp Asdvadzadzin Church in Nicosia, e-magazine of the Cypriot Armeninans Gibrahayer writes on its Facebook page.

After the exhibition, the manuscript will be restored.

The treasures, including fragments of church wall paintings, icons, a manuscript of an Armenian gospel and 40 prehistoric antiquities were found in 1997 in the flat of a Turkish dealer in Munich.

The relics were returned after a German Court of Appeals issued its final decision on the treasures stolen by a Turkish art smuggler from the areas of Cyprus occupied by Turkey.