Last week, Turkey’s Council of State annulled a 1934 Cabinet decree that had turned Hagia Sophia into a museum after nearly 500 years of use as a mosque.
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The Muslim worship at the Hagia Sophia cathedral in Istanbul, which was turned from a museum into a mosque on Friday, will begin on July 24, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a televised address to the nation on Friday. “Upon the completion of preparatory measures, we plan to …
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