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Erdogan · IstanbulSoon after Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals annulled Ataturk’s 1934 decision to convert Hagia Sophia into a museum, President Erdogan, flanked by the Turkish flag and a photo of the museum’s interior, delivered a speech declaring his intention to reopen it as a mosque. Rehashing popular conservative rhetoric, he justified the move by framing Hagia Sophia’s initial mosque conversion as the linchpin of the 1453 conquest of Istanbul and criticized…Read Article
