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Turkey’s top administrative court revoked the museum status of Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia, in effect allowing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government to take the controversial step of converting the Byzantine-era cathedral into a mosque.
The court on Friday canceled a 1934 cabinet decree signed by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the secular republic, that had turned Hagia Sophia from a mosque into a museum, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. Erdogan in May joined prayers at the 6th-century building to mark the Ottoman army’s 1453 conquest of Constantinople, now Istanbul, as part of his long push to reverse that process. BBG
The court on Friday canceled a 1934 cabinet decree signed by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the secular republic, that had turned Hagia Sophia from a mosque into a museum, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. Erdogan in May joined prayers at the 6th-century building to mark the Ottoman army’s 1453 conquest of Constantinople, now Istanbul, as part of his long push to reverse that process. BBG