Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia will be converted from a world-famous museum back into a mosque, a Turkish court ruled Friday, in a big victory for the Islamic conservatism of Turkey's President Erdogan.
“With Erdogan, Turkey will be a more powerful country in the near future,” she told NBC News by telephone. “There is no need to be secular anymore.''
“As [a] museum, Hagia Sophia can function as place and symbol of encounter, dialogue and peaceful coexistence of peoples and cultures, mutual understanding and solidarity between Christianity and Islam,” he said in a statementTuma Celik, a Syriac Christian and a member of Parliament with the Turkish pro-Kurdish party HDP, said he was against turning Hagia Sophia into a mosque.
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Factbox: Fifteen centuries, two faiths and a contested fate for Hagia SophiaA Turkish court is set to rule on Friday on a 1934 presidential decree converting Istanbul's Hagia Sophia into a museum. Two Turkish officials have said they expect the decree to be annulled, paving the way for it to become a mosque again.
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Changes to Istanbul's Hagia Sophia could trigger heritage review: UNESCOUNESCO must be notified of any change in the status of Istanbul's sixth-century Hagia Sophia museum and the changes may have to be reviewed by its World Heritage committee, the United Nation's cultural body said on Thursday.
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Changes to Istanbul's Hagia Sophia could trigger heritage review: UNESCOUNESCO must be notified of any change in the status of Istanbul's sixth-century Hagia Sophia museum and the changes may have to be reviewed by its World Heritage committee, the United Nation's cultural body said on Thursday.
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