Posted on 07/09/2020 5:54:37 PM PDT by marshmallow
Nice. You always come strong with pop culture references.
No the Hagia Sophia was what the Vatican was to the Eastern Church meaning the Greeks, Russians Serbs, Arabs and the like.
Sounds like slavery to me
A war was fought for that piece of earth and decided in 1453. Wars have been the determining factor for ownership and borders since the beginning of civilization. The spoils belong to the turks to do with as they please unless some one wants to challenge the ownership with a war.
Orthodox.
I am not surprised. When I visited a few years ago, there were Imams reading prayers in the Museum and it was clear that people in power wanted to convert it to a Mosque.
After the end of WW1, Turkey tried hard to become secular and built many protections into its Constitution. Their leaders wanted to modernize and become part of “Europe.” Times have changed and Muslim leaders have gotten much more militant and “in your face.” Still a lot of the people I met in Turkey just wanted to get along and live a life in peace.
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