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Erdogan Backs Cleric Who Claims Homosexuality Brings Disease
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threw his weight behind Turkey’s top Muslim cleric on Monday, who had caused a storm by claiming homosexuality “brings disease and causes this generation to...
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Turkish Religious Leader Calls for Friday Islamic Prayer in Hagia Sophia
Hasan Türüt, the leader of the Islamic organization Diyanet Bir-Sen (Religious and Foundation Employees’ Union), asked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to allow prayer inside Hagia Sophia the...
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Neglected Historic Greek Sites in Turkey Falling into Ruin
The recent collapse of part of the historic Byzantine wall in the Topkapi neighborhood of Constantinople has raised concerns over the maintenance of a range of iconic ancient Greek, Byzantine and Roman...
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500-Υear-Οld Handwritten Bibles Seized Near Turkey-Greece Border
Photo Source: Anadolu Press Agency Turkish security forces seized two, invaluable 500-year-old Bibles in northwestern Edirne province on TUesday, according to reports from Turkey’s Anadolu News Agency....
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Erdogan Announces Islamic Prayer at Hagia Sophia on Anniversary of Fall of...
A replica wall of the famous Byzantine-era walls of Contantinople was erected outside Hagia Sophia on Thursday as Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that a prayer to commemorate the...
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Turkey Vows Wider Ties With New Libyan Government
Following a Thursday meeting with Libyan leaders in Ankara, Turkey vowed to “improve” ties with the beleaguered Mediterranean nation. The statement followed a meeting between Turkish President Recep...
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Erdogan Pushes to Allow Islamic Prayer Inside Hagia Sophia
The controversial issue of once again performing Islamic prayers inside Hagia Sophia this July was discussed during a recent High Advisory Board meeting of the Turkish presidency. President Recep...
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More Than One Third of German Military Exports Go To Turkey
A Turkish “Leopard 2A4” tank. Photo: DPA Turkey is the #1 recipient of German arms exports for the second year running, according to a classified document revealed by the German Press Agency (DPA) on...
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Turkish Court Postpones Decision on Status of Hagia Sophia
The Turkish Council of State – the country’s highest administrative body – delayed a decision on whether the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople can be converted into a mosque on Thursday. After a hearing...
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Russian Patriarch Speaks Out Against Hagia Sophia’s Conversion into Mosque
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, recently spoke out against Turkish President Erdogan’s proposal to convert Hagia Sophia from a secular museum back into a mosque....
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Hidden Byzantine Church in Constantinople Revealed in All Its Glory
Photos of the ruins of an underground church and holy spring in Istanbul, in the former Byzantine city of Constantinople, have recently been released to the public. Photo: www.Twitter.com/@KPW1453...
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Crew of Hagia Sophia Documentary Returns for New Explorations
Göksel Gülensoy and his team of divers and researchers have been given another opportunity to explore the underground network of Hagia Sophia. Photo: www.Facebook.com/Hagia Sophia “the Beneath”...
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Turkey Calls on Greece to Demilitarize Sixteen Aegean Islands
Turkish General Hulusi Akar (right) recently spoke out against Greece’s recent militarization of 16 islands in the Aegean Sea. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Turkey...
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Turkish Decision on Hagia Sophia Coming on Friday
Hagia Sophia at dusk. Photo: Jeff Banke/ Depositphotos Two Turkish officials stated on Thursday that it is likely that a Turkish court will give its approval for the reconversion of the former...
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The Call to Muslim Prayer Resounds from the Hagia Sophia
Minutes after President Erdogan signed the decree turning Hagia Sophia into a Mosque, a crowd of Muslims gathered for a prayer at the UNESCO cultural site. Turkey’s administrative court annulled a...
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Hagia Sophia to Open for Muslim Worship on July 24
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that after completing all preparations, Hagia Sophia will open for worship on July 24. In an address to the nation, Erdogan stressed that Hagia...
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Nobel Prize-Winning Novelist Orhan Pamuk: Turkey No Longer Secular
Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s Nobel prize-winning author, has criticized the Turkish government’s decision to convert Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia into a mosque. “There are millions of secular Turks like me...
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EU Foreign Ministers Condemn Turkey’s Hagia Sophia Decision
The European Union’s foreign affairs leader Josep Borrell stated that the EU flatly “condemned the Turkish decision to convert such an emblematic monument as the Hagia Sophia,” after Monday’s...
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Italian, Israeli Groups Protest Hagia Sophia Conversion to Mosque
Italian and Israeli groups protested on Monday the decision by Turkey to turn the Hagia Sophia museum to a mosque. Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside the Turkish consulate in Milan to express...
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Erdogan Invites World Leaders to Friday’s Muslim Prayer Service at Hagia Sophia
Mosaics and frescoes cover the interior if Hagia Sophia, the building which served as the center of Eastern Christianity for almost one thousand years. File Photo According to information published in...
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