The Turkish daily Hürriyet reports on concerns that Turkey’s Islamist government will reverse over 75 years of official secularist policy, and turn the Hagia Sophia back into a mosque. Excerpt: The ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday formally reconverted Istanbul's sixth-century iconic Hagia Sophia into a mosque and declared it open to Muslim worship, hours after a high court ...

NY AG Letitia James Expands Battle to Disqualify Trump-Appointed, Unconfirmed U.S. Attorneys Audio By Carbonatix I rubbed my eyes in disbelief seeing a wall plaque at the Cummer Museum of Art and ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The president of Turkey on Friday formally converted Istanbul’s sixth-century Hagia Sophia back into a mosque and declared it open for Muslim worship, hours after a high court ...

WASHINGTON — As Christians and world leaders lament Turkey’s reconversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque, some experts warn that the act could spell a religious resurgence as much as a nationalist ...

ANKARA, Turkey — The Turkish government formally converted a former Byzantine church into a mosque Friday, a move that came a month after it drew praise from the faithful and international opposition ...

The Hagia Sophia has just opened to receive Sunni Muslim worshippers for the first time since 1931. The decision to convert the building in Istanbul, Turkey from a museum back into a mosque has ...

It was a project close to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's heart - but also one that was met with international criticism. In the summer of 2020, Erdoğan converted Istanbul's Hagia Sophia, ...

ISTANBUL — The conversion of Istanbul's symbolic, shape-shifting Hagia Sophia edifice back into a mosque is being described as a victory for the conservative religious agenda of Turkish President ...

ANKARA, Turkey — The president of Turkey on Friday formally reconverted Istanbul’s sixth-century Hagia Sophia into a mosque and declared it open for Muslim worship, hours after a high court annulled a ...

ISTANBULISTANBUL — Hundreds of Muslim faithfuls were making their way to Istanbul’s landmark Hagia Sophia on Friday to take part in the first prayers in 86 years at the structure that once was one of ...

Reporting from Istanbul, Turkey — As the time for afternoon prayers approaches, Onder Soy puts on a white robe and cap and switches on the microphone in a small 19th century room adjoining the Hagia ...