ISTANBUL—With its vast dome and towering minarets, Hagia Sophia is to humanity what the Grand Canyon is to geology: an open-air book that concentrates nearly one and a half millennia of history as the successive heart of Orthodox Christian and Muslim empires, punctuated by ransacking, fires and earthquakes.
But by deciding on Friday to transform back into a full-fledged mosque a building that has been a museum since the 1930s and has become a powerful symbol of ecumenical relations, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent...
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ggoonerr Islam is evil from the day it started killing destroying stealing lies all the devils work. they want everything on earth because they are not godly people. But in the end evil never wins god will defeat them.
Turkey’s Global Soft-Power Push Is Built on Mosques. Ankara is funding thousands of mosques .In 2016, Erdogan attended the official opening of the $110 million facility in suburban Maryland that was financed and built by his country , why keep The Diyanet Center of America open?
everything is crap
Turkey of course has the right to determine the use of this building. Globally speaking, Pres Erdogan needs to reassure the international community of continued openness and tolerance of all faiths, as part of the heritage of Kemal Ataturk.
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Radical jihadi Erdogan openly converted it into Mosque and world media is silent on this. What a BIGOTRY! HagiaSophia
You missed Crusaders
It's sad for All The Christians not only for Orthodox Christians.... We all stand united and are against the conversion of a Cathedral a Christian place of Worship for Christians to a mosque.
The Mosque of Cordoba was changed to a Cathedral, so thats ok and this is not?
Change 'Turkey' by 'Ottoman Empire', and you may say this tweet was written by a citizen of Constantinople back in 1453.
We will keep it safe as it has been for 567 years. We believe in the same god and that place is a symbol of both religions and the unity of humanity. Every single man should visit and learn the lesson that people can live together in peace
In Civilization 6. I turned The Hagia Sophia into an entertainment center. They complained for six turns. It's not recommended.
What about Masjid e qurtuba Why u were silent on Spain Islamic Places converted into church
70% of Turkish people are Muslim it's a Muslim country and they have the right to turn it into anytbing they want!
It has been a dream of most of the Turkish politicians/presidents but only Erdogan managed to do that, and he is supported by all political parties in the national assembly. %70 of the people supports him, what provocation you talk about? You provoke it.
Turkey will protect the mosaics and it is nothing to do with the seculer views of the people, I am seculer person but I supported this decision, because it is our right to give this decision, it is not other countries business.
Do you know there are 435 synagogs and churchs in Turkey servicing worshippers without any issue? Any mosques in Europe that athan prayer can be freely heard? NO, because it is forbidden, but you can hear the church bells ringing in Turkey. Ayasofia is Turkey's property.
That’s what Ilhan Omar’s vision of changing America is. Dismantling the system, and bringing her promoters to multiply and drag the USA back in time to be like Somalia and provide security (oppression) by al SHABAB and Hammas
HagiaSophia Ataturk is rolling over in his grave
We destroyed the Roman empire, we destroyed the Byzantine empire, the next opening masjid-aqsa.💪🇹🇷💪🇹🇷💪🇹🇷
Smh..... this is wrong :(
Erdogan’s an Islamic totalitarian fascist what do you expect!
It will hopefully still be there after these inane quibbles are long forgotten....
This is such a great news for Muslim from all around the world. Finally after almost a hundred years we finally got a chance to pray and worship in this majestic mosque that always Been take care for many century.
I visited in 2015. I’m so happy I got to visit this place in its original glory. The fact that two faith’s coexisted in one place was the first timer for me and I was massively impressed by that fact.
Mr. Erdogan said documents from a foundation Fatih Sultan Mehmet set up to protect the building contained a prophecy that “whoever changes the foundation certificate shall suffer the curse of God. “The decision made today allowed us to rid our country from this curse”
I hope orthodox Christian countries form coalition and declare war on turkey. takebackconstantinople
Why did you all disturb that people will pray there? Don’t be scared, it ll go on to serve as a museum where all visitors are vey welcome like it has been so far, as well.
Everyone that dislikes this action needs to ask themselves, do they consider their personal values to be secular humanist, and opposed to nationalism? Because that's why the until-recently explicitly secular Turkish state didn't do this. Now, they're nationalist.
What would Kemal Atatürk say?
You guys do know it was a mosque for 500 years right?
Terrible. It was a Christian Carhedral before the Ottoman Empire took over and made it onto a Mosque. This is just another one of Erodan’s provocations.
Erdogan weaponized migrants to extort billions of €s from the EU, then he invaded Syria/Iraq to murder Kurds, and tried to pirate the natural resources of Greece/Cyprus. Now, he’s turned a World Heritage site into a political prop. End Hitler 2.0 now. TurkeyIsATerrorState
'Greatest number of Trump's telephone discussions with an individual head of state were with Erdogan, who sometimes phoned the White House at least twice a week & was put through directly to Trump on standing orders from POTUS.'
🇹🇷 wants attention they like 👶 wanting 🍼. To bad no one really gives a shit about them.
Turkey just decided they're done with tourism; just like Egypt before a lot of people will suddenly decide it's just not worth it.
Great precedent to remove the Dome of the Rock for the third Jewish temple.
Its in Turkey, Turkey’s top guy is a jihadist radical, its a Jihad thing to do to an old Christian temple, deal with it. Want it changed? Initiate a Holy War and take it back for the Byzantines...that will be very byzantine!
Dont worry🤭
Turkey being a turkey? Hmmmm. How odd is that.
Absolutely appalling.
A true Muslim rejects to deprive others of their rituals at their own church, chapel or basilica. Just a piece of paper or a decree ratified by illegal signatures will never change historical fact of Agia Sophia the Basilica.
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