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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...
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Has Erdoğan launched a new age of religious wars?

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To understand just how dishonest the discussion about Jerusalem is conducted in venues where Israel is regarded with hostility like The New York Times, you need to start by discussing events in Istanbul, Turkey. Last week,...
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 (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...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Credit: Wikipedia.

Erdoğan is driving a wedge between Europe and the Middle East

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is using the chaos of civil war in Libya to carve out a new Turkish power base in the Maghreb. Erdoğan’s ambitions in North Africa will not only disrupt...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Credit: Kremlin.ru.

Erdoğan: ‘We will not allow Palestinian lands to be offered to anyone’

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a video message posted on social media on Monday that “we will not allow Palestinian lands to be offered to anyone.” In the video, which was addressed to...
Halkbank branch in Skanderbeg Square, Tirana, Albania. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Turkish bank pleads not guilty to charges of evading Iran sanctions

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Turkish state bank Halkbank pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to U.S. charges of evading U.S. sanctions on Iran. The plea was entered by the company’s lawyer, Robert Cary, in an arraignment conducted by U.S. District...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Credit: Kremlin.ru.

Turkey’s Erdoğan says Turkish military has begun deploying in Libya

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Sunday that the Turkish military has started moving units to Libya to support the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) based in Tripoli, Reuters reported. “There will be an operation...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Erdoğan’s ‘quiet jihad’

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Palestinian Authority officials are calling the gift the Turkish government gave them a few years ago “the treasure.” The trove comprises 140,000 pages of carefully arranged microfilm that could have a dramatic effect on...