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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Source: Turkish Presidency via Twitter.

Turkey’s bid to return to Ottoman-era glory endangers Israel and the region

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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has high ambitions. He wants to take his country back to what he perceives as the glory days of the Ottoman Empire, but the leader, who has been described...
The Hagia Sophia Museum in Istanbul, July 9, 2011. Photo: Antoine Taveneaux via Wikimedia Commons.

American Islamists laud Erdoğan’s transformation of Hagia Sophia into a mosque

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is enjoying strong support from many American Islamists for his decision to revert the ancient Christian cathedral of Hagia Sophia into a mosque, following a court ruling earlier this month that...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan inside the Hagia Sophia. Source: Twitter.

Turkey’s Hagia Sophia opens as mosque with Erdoğan reciting first prayer

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan joined hundreds of Muslim worshippers in Istanbul on Friday for the first prayers from the Koran in nearly 90 years inside the Hagia Sophia, once one of Christianity’s most...
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Turkey’s mad sultan

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Last week, in defiance of Pope Francis and the entire Christian world, Sultan Erdoğan’s dream became reality. Images depicting the Archangel Gabriel, the Virgin Mary and Christ Pantocrator, along with numerous other famous mosaics...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan inside the Hagia Sophia. Source: Erdoğan via Twitter.

Is Erdoğan’s decision to convert the Hagia Sophia into a mosque a sign of...

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The decision by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to convert the Hagia Sophia Cathedral turned museum in Istanbul back into a mosque reinforces his long-held plans for promoting Islamic supremacy and lifts his sagging...
The Hagia Sophia Museum in Istanbul, July 9, 2011. Photo: Antoine Taveneaux via Wikimedia Commons.

Turkey’s dual message on the reversion of the Hagia Sophia to a mosque

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Following Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s reversal last week of a 1934 law converting the Hagia Sophia Mosque into a museum, his personal Twitter account and that of his office emphasized different aspects of...
The Hagia Sophia museum (and former church) in Istanbul. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Erdoğan: Hagia Sophia ‘resurrection’ harbinger for Al-Aqsa ‘liberation’

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vowed on Friday that the “resurrection” of the ancient Hagia Sophia church in Istanbul as a mosque bodes well for the “liberation” of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. He...