https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/turkey-...sque-1.5018838
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Turkey's high administrative court threw its weight behind a petition brought by a religious group and annulled the 1934 Cabinet decision that turned the site into a museum. Within hours, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed a decree handing over Hagia Sophia to Turkey's Religious Affairs Presidency.
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Well, one of the great symbols of unity between faiths is now under the rule of far right wing orthodoxy. The Christian symbols dating back before 1400 are not allowed in this structure any longer, and I hope that they arn't simply destroyed.
I give it four years before the Byzantine/Ottoman divide in Turkey gets really violent.