Islam
Erdogan could not Islamize minds, so he is Islamizing stones instead’
Ezgi Başaran writes: French political scientist Professor Olivier Roy, who, since the mid-‘90s, has argued that the Islamist project has failed, says Atatürk’s secularism...
La remise en cause du statut de la basilique Sainte-Sophie par...
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Hagia Sophia and the Catastrophe of Symbolism
by Omar Ramahi
July 15, 2020
As a Muslim, I find Erdogan’s “decree” to change the status of Hagia Sophia (or Ayasofya in Turkish) from a...
Turkey: Back to Middle Ages
Hagia Sophia: World Council of Churches 'dismayed' over decision to turn museum into mosque
11/07/2020
The interim secretary-general of the World Council of Churches has...
Hagia Sophia ‘Day of Mourning’ unites Christians against Erdogan decision
By Emily Judd, Al Arabiya
23 July 2020
Christians around the world will unite on Friday in observing a ‘Day of Mourning’ for the Hagia Sophia...
Former Greek diplomat says Turkey will now face many internal problems
by Paul Antonopoulos
Former Greek Diplomat to Turkey, Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos, told Sputnik Hellas that the decision to turn Hagia Sophia into a mosque would lead...
Erdogan inspects Hagia Sophia ahead of Islamic prayer on July 24
The Hagia Sophia will open as Muslim Mosque for the first time since 1934
July 19, 2020
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited the Hagia Sophia...
Transformer Sainte-Sophie en mosquée: Une nouvelle crise en Méditerranée orientale
Par Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
12/07/2020
La décision du régime turc de faire de Sainte-Sophie, l'un des plus importants monuments de la chrétienté, une mosquée ne peut être...
Turning Hagia Sophia into a mosque: A new crisis in Eastern...
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
The decision of the Turkish regime to make Hagia Sophia, one of the most important monuments of Christendom, a mosque can only...
What Will Happen Now to Hagia Sophia’s Byzantine Mosaics?
By Tasos Kokkinidis
Jul 10, 2020
Following Turkey’s decision to annul the 1934 conversion of Constantinople’s Hagia Sophia into a museum, paving the way for its...