On the grand reopening of Masjid Aya Sophia, Ottoman historian Dr Yakoob Ahmed discusses the history and broader Eurocentric discourses surrounding the Hagia Sophia, Islamic history and conquest.
Inconvenient facts for those manufacturing the Turk vs Kurd or Arab vs Kurd false binaries
As the world turns its fire on Turkey, it is told you were damned for backing Syria's revolutionaries, damned for fighting terror, damned for embracing four million refugees and damned for seeking to repatriate them.
Is Imran Khan’s UN Speech a Turning Point?
While many of us in the UK only realise there’s a local election when rummaging through our take-away menus, Turkey’s local democracy teaches us all a lesson.
Tourists will visit “Hagia Sophia not as a museum but as a mosque” says Recep Tayyip Erdogan
“No one has the right to narrow the boundaries of brotherhood in Islam, drawn by our Lord and our Prophet”
President Erdogan: “Any attack launched or to be launched on Idlib will result in a disaster, massacre and a very big humanitarian tragedy”
“But they plot, and Allāh plans. And Allāh is the best of planners.”
The new system will “make Turkey stronger and more stable. This is what frightens Europe.”
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