Turkey has converted the ancient Chora church in Istanbul into a mosque, following a similar move with Hagia Sophia. Chora, originally a church dating back to the 4th century, became a mosque ...

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Turkey’s highest administrative court overturned the 1934 decree in 2020, allowing it to reopen as a mosque. “We have completed our work on the four minarets and the main structure,” Okten said.

Transforming the 1,500-year-old cathedral into a museum in the Thirties solved centuries of religious tension. Erdogan’s plan to reopen it for Muslim prayer shows the fight to preserve the Hagia ...

18-year-old suspect, armed with a long knife, broadcast attack at the tea garden of a mosque in Eskisehir live on social media platform X before police apprehended him, local media report ...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan visited the Blue Mosque in Istanbul as part of his working visit to Turkey on June 20 ...

Five injured in stabbing at mosque in Turkey. Some media agencies reported seven people had been injured. By AFP. August 13, 2024. A body is transported after a stabbing attack on April 30, 2024.

A masked man wearing a helmet and bulletproof vest on Monday stabbed at least five people outside a mosque in northwest Turkey before being detained by police, according to local media reports ...