Turkey
Turkish magazine calls for revival of CALIPHATE amid Hagia Sophia conversion,...
28 Jul, 2020
A Turkish pro-Islam magazine is in hot water after bringing the cause of a caliphate back to life with the cover story...
Greece welcomes Turkey’s decision to freeze hydrocarbon activities
July 28, 2020
Tension between Greece and Turkey moved to a course of effective de-escalation on Tuesday, after seismic research vessel Oruc Reis docked inside...
Egypt’ Grand Mufti: Converting Hagia Sophia into mosque impermissible in Islam
Jul 18, 2020
Converting the Turkish Hagia Sophia Cathedral, a UNESCO world heritage site, into a mosque is impermisible in Islam, said Egyptian Grand Mufti...
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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The military balance between Greece and Turkey in 2020
Jul 26, 2020
In light of the destructive capabilities of the Armed Forces of Greece and Turkey a Greek-Turkish military confrontation not only does not...
Turkey’s top religious authority head delivers Friday sermon at Hagia Sophia...
Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) head Ali Erbaş delivered the Friday sermon at Hagia Sophia with a sword in hand, presenting an Ottoman tradition...
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...
Berlin dismisses claim “Greece & Turkey on the brink of war”,...
July 23, 2020
Berlin has dismissed the report of Bild newspaper that Greece and Turkey were on the brink of a war on Tuesday night....
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...