Posted on 06/03/2016 10:54:37 PM PDT by Trumpinator
Istanbul’s Eyüp Municipality also organized a “Youth and Conquest Feast” yesterday at the Golden Horn, which included activities such as running and a bicycle race.
The event ended with the show of the municipality’s mehter team and the distribution of “conquest rice.”
A day earlier, on May 28, hundreds of Islamists prayed at the gates of Istanbul’s world famous Hagia Sophia, the towering former Byzantine church which now serves as a museum, in order to demand the right to pray there as part of an event called the “conquest prayer.”
An imam led a prayer in front of the vast building while crowds chanted for the opening of Hagia Sophia.
“In the name of thousands of our brothers we demand to be allowed to pray inside the Hagia Sophia mosque,” said Salih Turhan, the president of the Anatolia Youth Association, which organized the demonstration coinciding with celebrations for the anniversary of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople.
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Time to retake Constantinople from the Satanists.
Retake Constantinople! IMHO,if the Turks get frisky the Russians will do it..
Why did Constantinople get the works?
Get “the works” ?
I miss the Crusades
I think the Crusades missed you.
Welcome back.
Thanks so much. Good to see old friends and hope to bury the hatchet with some of my old adversaries here. At least until we get Trump safely ensconced in the WH. Cheers
We need Torquemada.
And King Richard I
Next year in Constantinople.
glad you’re back /thumbsup
Thank ye! Good to ‘see’ you again Kanawa.
Jiminy Tap-Dancing Christmas, where were you ? A 5-year long bathroom break ?
JR locked me in the outhouse! Good to see you still kickin’
I ain’t daid, yet.
The Russians had it, but the British made them give it back. 1860’s, if memory serves.
It was agreed in WWI that Russia would get Constantinople,the Bosphorus and the Dardenelles when Germany was defeated. The Bolsheviks abandoned that after the revolution.
Not quite. The Russians made it to the outskirts of Constantinople and could of taken it but signed a peace treaty with the Turks kicking them out of the Balkans. The other European powers, lead by the UK, balked at this massive extension of Russian power leading to the Treaty of Berlin.
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