Make Hagia Sophia Pray Again

Issue #39

Jul 15, 2020

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July 16, 2020

If there’s one lesson to learn from Pres. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during the Hagia Sophia debate, it’s to never give up on your dreams. More than 26 years after he was elected Istanbul mayor and expressed his desire to build a mosque in Taksim along with intentions to reconvert the Byzantine-era cathedral into a mosque, the Council of State re…

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