RETRACTION: Heritage Management Of Temple Tanks In An Urban Scenario: A Case Study Of Thirupporur, a Traditional Town In the State of Tamilnadu, India, by Kubilay Kaptan

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The Editor-in-Chief retracts this paper in accordance with recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics – COPE, after finding evidence of plagiarism. The retraction note is applicable to the following article: “Heritage management of temple tanks in an urban scenario - a case study of Thirupporur, a traditional town in the state of Tamilnadu, India”, https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1973-9494/4188 published online and in the print version of the Journal Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage, N.13 – 2013. The article plagiarized is the following: R. Vedamuthu and D. Jayanthi, “Heritage Management of Temple Tanks in an Urban Scenario - A Case Study of Thirupporur, a Traditional Town in the State of Tamilnadu, India” in “Studies on Historical Heritage” in the Proceedings of the International Symposium, Antalya, Turkey, September 17-21, 2007 http://www.tamir.yildiz.edu.tr/images/images/SHH07-2%20Ch3,%204.pdf.pdf

Readers are strongly encouraged to refer to this article instead of the retracted item. We apologize to readers and to the authors of the previously published paper for this very serious oversight.