Kemalism
Turkey is converting another former Byzantine church into a mosque
Aug. 22, 2020
The Turkish government formally converted a former Byzantine church into a mosque on Friday, a move that came a month after it...
Radical Turkish publication calls for a neo-caliphate
Erdogan, who became president in 2014 and ruled Turkey since, has sought to strengthen Turkey's regional role as well as a leading state in...
Turkish magazine calls for revival of CALIPHATE amid Hagia Sophia conversion,...
28 Jul, 2020
A Turkish pro-Islam magazine is in hot water after bringing the cause of a caliphate back to life with the cover story...
Erdogan could not Islamize minds, so he is Islamizing stones instead’
Ezgi Başaran writes: French political scientist Professor Olivier Roy, who, since the mid-‘90s, has argued that the Islamist project has failed, says Atatürk’s secularism...
La remise en cause du statut de la basilique Sainte-Sophie par...
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Hagia Sophia and the Catastrophe of Symbolism
by Omar Ramahi
July 15, 2020
As a Muslim, I find Erdogan’s “decree” to change the status of Hagia Sophia (or Ayasofya in Turkish) from a...
Turkey: Back to Middle Ages
Hagia Sophia: World Council of Churches 'dismayed' over decision to turn museum into mosque
11/07/2020
The interim secretary-general of the World Council of Churches has...
Hagia Sophia ‘Day of Mourning’ unites Christians against Erdogan decision
By Emily Judd, Al Arabiya
23 July 2020
Christians around the world will unite on Friday in observing a ‘Day of Mourning’ for the Hagia Sophia...
Former Greek diplomat says Turkey will now face many internal problems
by Paul Antonopoulos
Former Greek Diplomat to Turkey, Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos, told Sputnik Hellas that the decision to turn Hagia Sophia into a mosque would lead...
Transformer Sainte-Sophie en mosquée: Une nouvelle crise en Méditerranée orientale
Par Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
12/07/2020
La décision du régime turc de faire de Sainte-Sophie, l'un des plus importants monuments de la chrétienté, une mosquée ne peut être...