By Edward G. Stafford Jul 08 2020 The Council of State, Turkey’s highest administrative court, is currently considering whether to reconvert the Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque, a status it held from the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453 until 1931, the year in which Mustafa Kemal Atatürk closed it pending its re-opening in … Continue reading Why the U.S. will do nothing to protect the Hagia Sophia