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Erdogan is Preparing to Pray in the Hagia Sophia Next [Good] Friday
AsiaNews ^ | Nat da Polis

Posted on 04/09/2017 11:13:00 AM PDT by marshmallow

The President will pray together with members of his party and the religious leaders in Istanbul. The event falls two days before the referendum, to garner the Muslim vote. Transformation of the ancient Christian basilica into a museum rejected. Erdogan: Kemalism is dead.

Istanbul (AsiaNews) - The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is preparing to go to pray next Friday April 14 in Saint Sophia in Constantinople, the church declared a museum by the father of Republican Turkey Kemal Ataturk in 1934.

Erdogan will not be alone: ​​He will be accompanied by representatives of his party AKP (Muslim extraction) and religious leaders in Istanbul. According to the Christian calendar next Friday is Good Friday and the event will take place just two days before the April 16 referendum strongly backed by Erdogan in Turkey to establish an absolutist Presidency of Neottoman and Islamic extraction.

Thus Erdogan, nicknamed the "new sultan" for his political extremism, will seek to channel Muslim faithful in favor of a Yes ( "Evet") vote. According to the Muslim calendar the month to April (Nisan) is the month of the birth of Mohammed.

The news is carried in pro-government newspapers, presenting the latest book by Turk historian Mustafa Armagan - titled "The Saint Sophia intrigue" (Aya Sofia Entrikalari). In doing so they seek to create and prepare the climate for the prayer, as the will of the Turkish president. The book argues that the decree signed by Kemal Ataturk in 1934 which turned the Hagia Sophia from mosque into a museum, is not authentic. According to Armagan, the Kemal Ataturk signature on the decree is false. Therefore the act has no legal value and therefore Santa Sofia can in fact be used as a mosque, as was the case after the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453.

(Excerpt) Read more at asianews.it ...


TOPICS: Current Events; History; Islam; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: erdogan; turkey

1 posted on 04/09/2017 11:13:00 AM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Typical Muslim bullshit.


2 posted on 04/09/2017 11:16:18 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (Jerusalem is the city of The Great King! Forgive my misspelling when on my tablet)
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To: marshmallow

What does Erdogan pray to?


3 posted on 04/09/2017 11:16:46 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: marshmallow

How does he not already have the Islamist vote locked up?


4 posted on 04/09/2017 11:20:40 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: marshmallow

By praying there, he proclaims it a mosque.


5 posted on 04/09/2017 11:24:02 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Yet another display of Islam claiming Christian achievement as their own. Those backward first cousin breeding losers could never have built anything like the Haghia Sophia. They needed a jizya tax child Sinan the architect to build all their famous structures during the Ottoman “golden age”.


6 posted on 04/09/2017 11:33:47 AM PDT by Tailback
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To: marshmallow
What Erdogan and the Muslims fail to know is that Jesus Christ the Victor demands return of His church with complete restoration, and reparations for the filthy obscenities committed there. The LORD doe not forget the depravities committed by the Muslims there.
7 posted on 04/09/2017 11:35:33 AM PDT by Missouri gal
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To: marshmallow

So, that’s five days notice of where Erdogan and a gaggle of Sunni “leaders” will all be in the same place at the same time, to desecrate both the legacy of Ataturk and one of the most revered Christian cathedrals and architectural marvels of any age. Wouldn’t it be a shame if something happened to disrupt their little party?


8 posted on 04/09/2017 11:46:32 AM PDT by katana (It still hasn't occurred to them that Trump doesn't give a s***)
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To: marshmallow

This is a line from a poem by Turkish writer, Ziya Gökalp. Ironically, he was a staunch Kemalist.

Erdogan's pro-Islamist sympathies earned him a conviction in 1998 for inciting religious hatred. He had publicly read an Islamic poem including the lines: "The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers..." He was sentenced to 10 months in jail, but was freed after four.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2270642.stm

9 posted on 04/09/2017 11:47:04 AM PDT by MacNaughton (" ...it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism." Whitaker Chambers)
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To: BenLurkin

A non-existent pagan moon-god.


10 posted on 04/09/2017 12:41:06 PM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: BenLurkin

Satan.


11 posted on 04/09/2017 1:20:50 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: marshmallow

There is no prophet Muhammad and Satan was his father.


12 posted on 04/09/2017 1:42:31 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: BenLurkin

Erdogan prays to Satan.


13 posted on 04/09/2017 2:40:36 PM PDT by Enchante (Libtards are enemies of true civilization!)
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To: BenLurkin
What does Erdogan pray to?

Like all muzz slimes, he prays to a djinn (demon) that some sand pirate named mo ham head encountered in a cave one day. It infected him, and the legions have spiritually infected his followers ever since. They are the perfectly possessed.

14 posted on 04/09/2017 2:51:47 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We Fix America)
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To: marshmallow

The former ancient Catholic Church-turned-Mosque-turned-museum is beautiful. Especially the now uncovered Christian art inside which the muslims had covered with plaster centuries ago... Beautiful images of Christ, Mary, baby Jesus, etc. will now either be destroyed or once again covered with plaster.


15 posted on 04/09/2017 7:25:10 PM PDT by JustTheTruth
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To: marshmallow

Praying for fire from heaven to strike him down.


16 posted on 04/09/2017 7:45:20 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Tailback

Our pastor went to this “museum” , probably ten years ago now. She said as beautiful as it is, it was so sad.

She had a photo that she said was her most thought provoking. They left out the back door, and there off in the tall grass and assorted crap was the babtismal basin laying on it’s side.


17 posted on 04/09/2017 7:49:54 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: marshmallow

Next Year in Constantinople


18 posted on 04/09/2017 8:07:31 PM PDT by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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To: marshmallow

19 posted on 04/09/2017 8:11:09 PM PDT by Bon mots (Laughing at liberal tears!)
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