Following a cabinet meeting in Ankara on Monday, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke about the issue of Hagia Sophia for half an hour, Iefimerida reported. According to Istanbul correspondent for OPEN TV,…
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that Hagia Sophia mosque will be open for prayer on July 24. “Hagia Sophia will start functioning as a mosque after 86 years. I hope this…
Entitled ‘Erdogan Talks of Making Hagia Sophia a Mosque Again, to International Dismay’, an article on the New York Times notes that the Turkish president’s move to turn the Hagia Sophia museum…
Speaking on Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency, Turkey’s Justice Minister made bizarre claims that Hagia Sophia’s origins are as a mosque. “This [Hagia Sophia] is a matter of sovereignty for Turkey. Of course,…
Turkish pro-government daily Daily Sabah, has published another article targeting Greece with falsities, historical inaccuracies and outright lies. The Daily Sabah, owned by Ahmet Çalık, a close associate of Turkish President Recep…
It appears that all the talk of turning Hagia Sophia into a mosque by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his administration is now doing a turn around, for now. According to…
On July 2, the Council of State of Turkey is expected to rule on the request to annul the presidential decree that turned Hagia Sophia into a museum in 1934, Law and…
The Köprülü Mosque in the Cypriot city of Limassol was petrol bombed and had graffiti written on its outer walls just days after Turkey allowed Islamic readings to be read in Hagia…
The Presidential Communication Director of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Fahrettin Altun, has given hints from his Twitter account that the Hagia Sophia cathedral will once again be converted into a Muslim…
The Religious and Foundation Employees’ Union (Diyanet Bir-Sen) called for the first Friday prayer after the coronavirus pandemic to be performed in Hagia Sophia. Friday is considered the Holy Day in Islam.…
April 24th is the day the world commemorates the Armenian Genocide committed by Turks in 1915. That day, 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders were arrested in Constantinople and sent to Chankri…
Anarchists have spray-painted slogans on the walls of the Byzantine-era Church of Prophet Elias in the area of Ano Poli (Upper Town), Thessaloniki. The medieval church was built in the 1300’s and…
The US State Department announced that the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, Sam Brownback will visit Istanbul, Turkey today, January 16, where he will meet with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew…
According to sources from the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, the capital’s first mosque is likely to open for operation in March 2020, with the State approving the appointment of Greek…
Prison authorities in northern Greece were given a briefing on Islam on Thursday to help them better undestand the religious practices and traditions of the 3,000 muslim inmates currently held in Greek…
Greek police raided a mosque in Xanthi, north-eastern Greece, on Tuesday, and arrested an Imam for weapons possession after discovering two guns, a hunting rifle and thirty cartridges in the Islamic place…