Hagia Sophia
Turkey to reopen all tourism facilities as of July: Minister
As of July, Turkey will resume all those tourism facilities planned to be reopened as part of the normalization process, said the country's culture and tourism minister on June 10.
Speaking to CNN Turk, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy commented on the revival of tourism in the country.
Turkey urged by US to respect Hagia Sophia
In its annual International Religious Freedom Report, the US State Department notes that senior US government officials have continued to publicly and privately express to Turkish officials their view that Hagia Sophia, a former Orthodox Christian cathedral in Istanbul, is a monument of exceptional significance that must be preserved in a way that respects its religious history.
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Akar says Greece would not want war with Turkey
Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Wednesday he was certain that Greeks would not want an armed conflict with Turkey over maritime dumpsites in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean.
"I want to underline in a mathematical certainty that Greeks would not want to stage a war with Turkey," Akar told the private broadcaster A Haber in an interview on June 10.
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Row over Hagia Sophia an artificial crisis: Akşener
İYİ (Good) Party chair Meral Akşener has criticized President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for sparking "artificial crises" in order to divert people's attention from economic and other pressing issues and suggested that the government's recent demand to turn the Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque was one of them.
Erdogan accuses Greece of interfering
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused Athens of interfering in his country's domestic affairs, warning that "if Greece does not know its place, Turkey knows how to answer."
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Erdogan Wants to Convert the Hagia Sophia Church into a Mosque
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has asked his aides to conduct a comprehensive study on how to convert Istanbul's famous Hagia Sophia landmark, currently a museum, into a mosque, a Turkish newspaper reported on Friday.
Gov’t may look to change Hagia Sophia’s status
The Turkish government may start works to change the current status of Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya), a landmark mosque-turned-museum in Istanbul, daily Hürriyet reported on June 5.
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Erdogan seeking to change use of Hagia Sophia
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reportedly instructed government officials to "do a study" on how to change the status of Hagia Sophia, the Byzantine-era Greek Patriarchal cathedral that was later transformed into an Ottoman mosque before becoming a museum in 1935.
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Ankara hails anti-racist protests in US
Turkey's ruling party spokesman on June 3 hailed demands for equality as anti-racist protests continue in the country after the killing of African-American man George Floyd.
Turkey is against all groups trying to turn legitimate protests in the US violent and bring public order under their destructive influence, said Ömer Çelik, spokesman for the AKP, after a party board meeting.
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Turkey urges restraint to US over protests
Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has urged restraint to the United States over ongoing mass protests in reaction to the killing of an unarmed black man at the hands of police in Minneapolis.
"It's not acceptable that the police could kill anybody regardless of his race, religion or faith in such a way," Çavuşoğlu told private broadcaster 24TV in an interview on June 3.
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