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People walk towards the now-closed Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia, one of Istanbul's main tourist attractions in the historic Sultanahmet district of Istanbul on Saturday. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan formally reconverted Hagia Sophia into a mosque and declared it open for Muslim worship, hours after a high court annulled a 1934 decision that had made the religious landmark a museum.

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Culmination of a genocide: The conversion of Hagia Sophia is the end of secular Turkey

Alex Galitsky -

July 15, 2020 4:00 am