hagia sophia: erdogan

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It will be tragic if he takes the country down with him – as happens all too often in that region.I have written about ancient places, warzones, political upheavals and far frontiers for the Wall Street Journal and Newsweek since the 1990s. Mexico now has third-highest global Covid-19 death toll Top US Senators have denounced the conversion and it's likely Congress will initiate some form of censure. If war erupts fully and Erdogan fails to help the Azeris, his supporters will rebel and he will likely be ousted by angry crowds in Ankara. He Although, from left to the right, many Turkish politicians have attempted to legitimize their positions by tracing them to the dictates of a so-called golden age, the true legacy of Atatürk has been to empower the subjects of an oppressive empire so that they can dare to challenge and hold accountable their rulers as equal citizens. "Are you ruling Turkey or us? "As a Greek, I'm quite bitter. Erdogan revealed as Antichrist at Hagia Sophia. President Erdogan of Turkey announced that Hagia Sophia would revert from being a museum back into a mosque and today it happened. And, indeed, it appears that President Putin said as much in a phone call between the two leaders. President Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke on the phone Tuesday after Erdogan sparked global outrage by converting the 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia into a … "Many analysts say Erdogan's move could be intended to consolidate his voters as the country deals with a shrinking economy and rising unemployment.

Mr Erdogan said Saturday that it was “difficult and emotional” to be speaking at the Hagia Sophia, which he described as “magnificent and holy”. So now 18% of the population automatically opposes him and votes for whichever configuration will defeat his party; he opened a war front with Syria and absorbed over three million refugees so in municipal elections the voters chose the main opposition party in the big cities. Virtual pariah status for his country in foreign affairs - and continuous chaos within. The entire incident is a timely tacit reminder to Erdogan of how strategic over-reach has left him perilously vulnerable. The Directorate of Religious Affairs, an institution devised to keep religion under government control, evolved into a sectarian instrument for not only disciplining the Sunni majority but also for dominating minorities.For all its shortcomings, the republican modernization project set into motion colossal transformations that opened Turkey up to new ideas and practices, laying the groundwork for a robust multiparty democracy.Despite holding its first free and fair democratic elections only in 1950 and being repeatedly haunted by coups carried out by a tutelary military that felt entitled to hold the reins, Turkey’s citizens have time and again found ways to reimpose their democratic will and take back their country. The Hagia Sophia had been one of the most recognisable Cathedrals in Medieval Christendom from its founding in the 6th Century. If he intervenes too emphatically, he will find himself up against Armenia's traditional guarantor, Russia. He won't, however, get the populist propulsion from such a common-sense compromise. And, if that's the case, what's happening today with the Hagia Sophia is really a bad starting point.

""This extraordinary site is a testament to religious expression and to artistic and technical genius, reflected in its rich and complex 1,500-year history," he said. Nonsense. Greece's culture minister decried the move earlier on Friday, calling it "an open provocation to the entire civilized world.