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Article: Postal pranksters: counterfeit stamps as art.
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- Reason
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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A FEW YEARS ago in Turkey, the Chicago artist Michael Thompson and a friend were arrested for venturing too close to the Armenian border. The authorities weren't sure why anyone would go so far into the Kurdish zone, let alone some Americans who kept snapping pictures of tanks, so they were a wee bit suspicious. "We were interrogated for probably 18 hours that day," Thompson reports. "They were convinced that we were CIA."
Fortunately for Thompson, the police didn't search his car. If they had, they would have discovered several sheets of counterfeit stamps, all bearing the initials PKK--that's the Kurdish Workers Party, an underground guerrilla group--and an ...
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