Friday, 29 March , 2024

Kemalism

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...

Cette tentative du président Erdogan ne doit duper personne. Une opinion signée par un collectif de chercheurs, journalistes, scientifiques, artistes... Retrouvez la liste complète...

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...

Erdogan’s conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque and the danger...

By Ulaş Ateşci and Alex Lantier 15 July 2020 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s decree Friday turning the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul into a working...