What next after Hagia Sophia move?
Published 13 Jul,2020 via Hürriyet Daily News - A process to formally convert the Hagia Sophia into a mosque was realized on July 10 after a presidential decree was published in the Official Gazette, overriding a government decision from 1934 that converted the historical site into a museum.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced and explained the details of the change of the status of the Hagia Sophia in a televised address to the nation at 8:53 p.m., hearkening back to 1453, the year Mehmet the Conqueror captured Istanbul.
He thanked the Council of State which annulled the 1934 decree that paved the way for Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and the first president of the modern Republic of Turkey, to turn the Hagia Sophia into a museum.
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