RE: Turkey's Erdogan orders the conversion of Hagia Sophia back into a mosque
July 14, 2020 at 12:33 pm
(July 14, 2020 at 12:21 pm)ido Wrote:(July 14, 2020 at 12:11 pm)WinterHold Wrote:
That coup in Turkey failed because the majority of people wanted Erdogan. Turkish people are far well educated than their counterparts in Egypt -who wasted their revolution by handing the country back to the army post 2011-.
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Egypt ?! who cares !
What possible reason could there be to take such a step? Anybody who has ever been there knows that there are half a dozen mosques within a kilometre of the Hagia Sophia, so it's not as though they're in desperate need of more. The only reason anybody could offer up is this: The Turkish government is sending an unmistakable message.They are saying "Turkey is a Muslim country, we may say that we're secular, but we're really no different from any other Islamic republic."
I care. This is a multi-cultural forum.
The Turkish people want it a mosque. They voted for it to be a mosque. So it's an internal Turkish affair.
The Turkish people voted, so why do you care? their country; their rule.
