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2020-07-11T19:19:24.314Z


| the Middle EastTurkish President referred to court ruling that Istanbul's vast museum will become a mosque • Angry Orthodox Church: "It's Back to the Middle Ages" Turkish President, Recipe Taipei Erdogan // Photo: AP Erdogan Islamization: International outrage, including the US Secretary of State's announcement that Washington "disappointed" by Turkey's decision to turn Ayia Sophia into a mosque, does not exc...


Turkish President referred to court ruling that Istanbul's vast museum will become a mosque • Angry Orthodox Church: "It's Back to the Middle Ages"

  • Turkish President, Recipe Taipei Erdogan // Photo: AP

Erdogan Islamization: International outrage, including the US Secretary of State's announcement that Washington "disappointed" by Turkey's decision to turn Ayia Sophia into a mosque, does not excite Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who made a triumphant speech last night over a link between the bantam building Sixth century with the Vatican and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

"I plan to open Aya Sophia in favor of Friday prayers as early as July 24," Turkish President Erdogan Shaf has already stated on Friday that "Aya Sofia's doors will remain open to everyone - including Turkey and foreigners, Muslims and non-Muslims." On the other hand, the Turkish president added that "the use of Ayia Sophia is an issue related to Turkish sovereignty. I urge everyone to sabotage the decisions made by our legal and constitutional institutions."



He said, "We accept every opinion on the subject, but every intervention will be a violation of our independence." At this point, Erdogan created a historically unfounded comparison. "Calls to leave Ayia Sophia as a museum are worth the desire to turn the Vatican into a museum," said the Turkish president. "Ayia Sophia's rebellion heralds the release of the Al-Aqsa Mosque - as part of Muslim measures to liberate it from the occupation."

Turkey's president even stated that Aya Sofia would once again serve as a mosque "while preserving the cultural heritage of humanity." It is a statement that it is unclear how it will occur, for in 1453 the Ottoman Sultan of the Second Mat turned the church into a mosque, covered the ancient Christian murals and mosaics with plaster. Following the decision of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's government in 1934 - they were rediscovered, and it is now unclear what the fate of historical treasury will be.

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Erdogan took advantage of the speech to quote Mehmet II a curse on those who would change the status of Ayia Sophia from a mosque - and thus in fact cursed Ataturk. At the level of the history of the sixth-century building, Erdogan concluded that "the Turkish right to Aya Sofia is no less than those who built it over 1,500 years (Byzantine)."

Orthodox Church: "Back to the Middle Ages"

On the other hand, as expected, the accusations against Ankara's Islamization measures came not only from diplomatic institutions, but also from many religious and cultural figures. "This is back to the Middle Ages," responded the Russian Orthodox Church. "In a multi-religious world, there is a duty to respect everyone's religious sentiments." The archbishop of the Orthodox Church of America, Alphidophorus, was not harsh in his words.

"Aya Sophia's return to mosque is the worst example of any religious coercion," said Alfidophorus. "In this move, Turkey has closed the window that Ataturk has opened to the world. We hope that the terrible news about Ayia Sofia does not indicate the deterioration of the Turkish government's attitude toward minorities Turkey, and the violation of religious freedom. "

Aurhan Pamuk, Nobel laureate for the 2006 literature, told the BBC that "Aya Sophia's repeated conversion to the mosque is never removed -" Unfortunately, we are no longer secular. " He said, "There are millions of secular Turks like me who cry against it, but their voices are not heard."







If there is a very prominent point is the silence of Russia as a whole and of Vladimir Putin in particular. "Russia's silence stems from the decision of the Istanbul Orthodox Church that qualified the independence of the Kiev church from the Moscow church," says "Israel Today" Dr. Hai Eitan Cohen Yanrujak, a modern Turkey scholar at the Jerusalem Institute of Strategy and Security and Tel Aviv University.

 This is reflected, according to Dr. Cohen Yanrojak, "in that the church in Istanbul gave the Ukrainians and the area of ​​influence of the Church of Moscow has decreased significantly. Putin's silence, on the other hand, indicates that he looks at it with national eyes and not with orthodox eyes. "In turning Ayia Sophia into a mosque, Dr. Cohen Yanrojak says, Erdogan has three goals.

"First, he seeks to divert thought from the failing economy," the senior researcher noted. "Also, it is hurting his two opponents for the conservative voice in Turkey - Ahmet Debutulu and Abi Bajan. This move strengthens Erdogan's status in the conservative eyes that he is trying to keep the voice from "Alongside, the comparisons in his speech between turning Ayya Sofia and the Vatican and the release of Al-Aqsa indicate Erdogan's neo-Ottoman ambitions."

Dr. Cohen Yanrujak added: "The claims of religious harm are baseless, since the Turks have always looked to Aya Sophia as a mosque. They never looked at it as a museum. To them, Aya Sophia was a locked mosque that is now open. Losing Turkey's secularism is an ongoing process that has not begun in recent days. "

Source: israelhayom

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