According to semi-official Anadolu Agency, Turkey's top administrative court annulled a 1934 presidential decree converting Hagia Sophia into a museum. The ruling does not automatically convert Hagia Sophia into a mosque. It awaits a presidential decree by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has championed the move. The Hagia Sophia was the Roman Empire's first Christian cathedral and is among the best known Byzantine structures in the world.
Turkish-Greek relations are also tense due to geopolitical tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean, including the long-running dispute over Cyprus and around migrants crossing the border between the countries.
Why is there not more outcry about this
The US politicians have sold us out.
YaboyCrunchyy why are so many people crying about this? It's already been converted 5 times in its history. Feel like anyone is wanting any excuse to attack Islam
Who cares
Sad as Erdogan sinks his country's secular achievements ever further into the ground and, in his autocratic endeavors, does not stop at the cultural heritage of mankind
This wasn't the Roman Empire's first Christian cathedral. That would be Old St. Peter's Basilica. Hagia Sophia was built some 200 years later.
This is an attack on secularism and must be stopped!
there are hundreds of mosques turned into a church in Spain and other European parts so what the fuss about this. it's normal. Granada mosque , ram mandir examples.
They will lose tourism
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They will all be mosques soon. Smh, I hate religion. Such a divider of human kind.
Make Istanbul Constantinople Again
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It’s just another step in his strategy of appealing to Islamists everywhere and presenting himself as the “Caliph”
Good decision. . . Thanks to great ottoman ruler sultan mahmud fateh & rajab tayyab erdogan
Nice decision ❤️❤️❤️
It was built by Romans, not Turks.
Where were you when Spain turned the mosques into churches?
They are the owner now.
gosh, was there ever a doubt?
This is what happens when you let an anti-intellectualist, ethno-nationalist assume defacto totalitarian control over Anatolia. Deeply disturbing and destabilising behaviour by violating international law in a politically fragile part of the world.
Very good news. May ALLAH bless them and protect them from all kind of evil .
An attack on all Christians liberate Constantinople
❤️ Al-Haq returned as it was before the Turkish people are Muslim and does not accept the destruction of their wealth
What tragedy
Those who turned the majestic Kurtuba (Cordoba) mosque of Andalusia into a cathedral He tells us to stay as a Hagia Sophia Museum Look now Bak😂😂 Well no one asked you for your opinion The Hagia Sophia Mosque
Then Godly chaddingtons the likes Eleftherios Noufrakis will just have to hold mass there. DeusVult
Worst idea ever
Erdogan's votes were reducing and he got 5% more vote with this
Shit turkey and turkish government
Cue...
To everyone, before your thinking goes far unnecessarily, this was a mosque for 470 years when Mohammad Alfateh BOUGHT it from the priests and Turkey still has the documents to proof it, so chill out, they own it and can do whatever they want just like Spain did with the mosques
One day it will be a Cathedral again. Without those hideous minarets.
Just another chapter in the history of this building.
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