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[Turkey's] Top Court Declares Hagia Sophia a Mosque
Church Militant ^ | 7/9/20 | Jules Gomes

Posted on 07/09/2020 5:54:37 PM PDT by marshmallow

Vatican silent as verdict triggers geopolitical tremors

ISTANBUL (ChurchMilitant.com) - In a historic verdict, Turkey's top court has returned the world's greatest Byzantine basilica to its previous status as a mosque after it abolished President Atatürk's 1934 decision to turn Hagia Sophia into a museum.

Turkey's highest administrative court, the Council of State, reached a unanimous verdict declaring that president Kemal Atatürk's cabinet had no right to turn Hagia Sophia into a museum as part of his secularist reforms and has rendered the decision unlawful.

The court is expected to deliver its judgment Friday, but Turkish journalist Mehmet Ardıç, a close advisor of the current radical Islamic president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, broke the news Wednesday. "The countdown has begun," he tweeted.

Numan Kurtulmuş, deputy chairman of Turkey's governing Justice and Development Party (AKP), told Turkish media that on July 15, or even earlier, Hagia Sophia will be opened as a mosque "for prayer." The ruling was also confirmed by the popular Turkish history Twitter channel Ottoman Records.

A Sign of Continued Jihad?

Emperor Justinian the Great dedicated the Church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople to the Wisdom of God in 537. Sultan Mohammed II conquered Constantinople and converted the basilica into a mosque in 1453.

Speaking to Church Militant, world-renowned Islamic historian Robert Spencer pointed out that under the radical Islamic rule of president Erdoğan, the ruling was not at all surprising.

(Excerpt) Read more at churchmilitant.com ...


TOPICS: Current Events; Islam; Orthodox Christian; Religion & Politics
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1 posted on 07/09/2020 5:54:37 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Don’t worry, nothing will be done about it.


2 posted on 07/09/2020 5:55:27 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: SunkenCiv

PING


3 posted on 07/09/2020 5:56:20 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: marshmallow

Surprise!

(Not. Decision was never in doubt.).


4 posted on 07/09/2020 5:57:01 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: marshmallow

Turks suck.


5 posted on 07/09/2020 5:59:04 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: marshmallow

Ok Russia, you know what to do.


6 posted on 07/09/2020 5:59:52 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Yes, anyone who ever watched “Midnight Express” knows how those Turkish courts are.


7 posted on 07/09/2020 6:00:59 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: marshmallow

Everyone knows that Hagia Sofia was originally built as a mosque during the reign of Islamic ruler Justinian. And Al Quds was muslim long before the Jews came and renamed it Jerusalem. /s

I know it was the time of “The Great Game”, but maybe Britain should have let Russia have at it with the Ottomans during the Crimean War.


8 posted on 07/09/2020 6:02:16 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Tijeras_Slim

My Grampa fought them in WWI. He said they were pretty mean and carried those Muslim swords.


9 posted on 07/09/2020 6:03:39 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: a fool in paradise; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; ...
The court is expected to deliver its judgment Friday, but Turkish journalist Mehmet Ardic, a close advisor of the current radical Islamic president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, broke the news Wednesday. "The countdown has begun," he tweeted.
Seems like a good fake journalist to make an example of.

10 posted on 07/09/2020 6:18:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: marshmallow

From Gibbons Decline And Fall, after describing the Muslim taking of Hagia Sophia:

At the same hour a similar rapine was exercised in all the churches and monasteries, in all the palaces and habitations, of the capital; nor could any place, however sacred or sequestered, protect the persons or the property of the Greeks. Above sixty thousand of this devoted people were transported from the city to the camp and fleet, exchanged or sold according to the caprice or interest of their masters, and dispersed in remote servitude through the provinces of the Ottoman empire.


11 posted on 07/09/2020 6:18:20 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: marshmallow

Time to retake Constantinople.


12 posted on 07/09/2020 6:19:18 PM PDT by JPJones (More Tariffs, less income tax.)
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To: marshmallow

It happened before under the Ottoman Empire.


13 posted on 07/09/2020 6:21:34 PM PDT by Salman (if you can loot in person, you can vote in person.)
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To: JPJones

> Time to retake Constantinople <

Here’s a little-known fact. Constantinople was retaken! The victorious WW I Allies took over the city in November of 1918. It was then occupied for almost five years. That would have been a perfect time to cede the city to Greece. But no. In 1923 Constantinople was returned to the Turks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Constantinople


14 posted on 07/09/2020 6:48:28 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: KC_Lion

Blow the damned thing up.


15 posted on 07/09/2020 7:15:38 PM PDT by jimfree (My19 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Caliphate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_War_of_Independence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Hellenic_Republic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Hellenic_Republic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Turkish_War_(1919%25E2%2580%25931922)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Hellenic_Republic


16 posted on 07/09/2020 7:27:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: marshmallow

Originally a Catholic Church.


17 posted on 07/09/2020 8:23:16 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: JPJones

But first, let’s take NYNY.


18 posted on 07/09/2020 8:25:52 PM PDT by deadrock (<img src="WIDTH420WIDTH420.jpeg" width="420">)
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To: deadrock

First, we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin!


19 posted on 07/09/2020 8:26:42 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: marshmallow

Elections matter!

(So do wars).


20 posted on 07/09/2020 8:28:22 PM PDT by mrsmith (US Media: "Every cop is a criminal; ALL the sinners saints!")
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