Hagia Sophia: Court Decision and Development Party

hagia sophia: Hagia Sophia happens to be Turkey's most popular tourist attraction, according to Rabble. Erdo an has been hinting at doing this since 2018, so it wasn't exactly a surprise. Minutes later, President Recep Tayyip Erdo an decreed that the Great Mosque of Ayasofya its other name will open for Muslim prayer in late July this year, righting what he framed as an 85-year-old legal injustice. Secularism has been enshrined in Turkey's Constitution since its founding in the 1920s, but the clearly politically motivated court decision is only the latest installment in the Justice and Development Party's broader campaign to promote Islam in Turkish public life. To do this, he exploits a loophole in the state's secularity rule that allows him to superfund the Religious Affairs Directorate the Diyanet which administers and promotes Hanafi Sunni Islam in public life and will now control Hagia Sophia. Erdo an says he wants to raise a pious generation by introducing religion into schools, having texts like Pinocchio rewritten, and firing tens of thousands of teachers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.