IN LEVANCE, CALE SECULARITY FACING ISLAM
A street prayer in Istanbul for the “Blue Mosque” to become again a place of worship MURAD SEZER / REUTERS
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We can think of the religious surpassed by history but here it is that makes history. At the very place where the East and the West meet as two neighbors would observe each other at the edge of their gardens, a millennial bone of contention reappears. In view of the global controversy it arouses, it is intact in the emotional charge it arouses and vigorous like an old stubborn bramble root.
The scene, you know, takes place in Turkey in Istanbul, former Constantinople, on the edge of the Bosphorus . Whether we observe this place from the Eastern Levant or from the European sunset, from the Middle Eastern and African, to the south, or perched to the north Ukrainian and Russian, this piece of marine land looks like a compass rose: it's one of the great geographic and geopolitical crossroads of the planet .
Since July 10, the former Sainte-Sophie basilica, which became a “blue mosque” and then a museum - listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site - becomes… a place
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