• Emmanuel Macron and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the war of words

    Emmanuel Macron and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the war of words

    The tone is again raised between the President of Turkey Recept Tayyip Erdogan and Emmanuel Macron, the former worrying about the mental health of the latter and accusing him of 'Islamophobia'.
  • Erdogan Signs Order Allowing Hagia Sophia to Be Used as a Mosque

    Erdogan Signs Order Allowing Hagia Sophia to Be Used as a Mosque

    Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed an order on Friday allowing the Hagia Sophia to be used as a mosque. Built in 537 A.D., the Hagia Sophia originally served as a Greek Orthodox cathedral for the Byzantine Empire. When Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II conquered Istanbul in 1453, he converted the Hagia Sophia to a mosque. …