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| The Grand Turk | |
| The re-Islamification of Turkey continues: Erdogan moots renaming Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia museum a mosque | |
| 2019-03-25 | |
| [IsraelTimes] Former church and mosque, now a museum, often sparks tensions between Christians and Moslems over Islamic activities held there. Erdogan, who is a former mayor of Istanbul, is campaigning for votes for his Justice and Development Party (AKP) ahead of municipal elections on March 31. The Hagia Sophia was first built as a church in the sixth century under the Christian Byzantine Empire as the centerpiece of its capital Constantinople, today’s Istanbul. Almost immediately after the conquest of Constantinople by the Moslem Ottomans in 1453, it was converted into a mosque before becoming a secular museum in a key reform of the new post-Ottoman Ataturk was the founder of the Since Erdogan’s AKP came to power, critics and advocates of secularism fear the government harbours a hidden agenda to reconvert the Hagia Sophia into a mosque.
...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... ’s top court in September last year rejected an association’s demand that the Hagia Sophia be opened for Moslem prayers. The museum, a UNESCO World Heritage site, receives millions of visitors every year. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 #MakeTurkeyAnaatoliaAgain |
| Posted by: charger 2019-03-25 18:34 |
| #1 not really 're-islamification' it's part of neo Ottoman ethnic cleansing - |
| Posted by: lord garth 2019-03-25 08:47 |