Umut Azak on Hagia Sophia and the future of Turkey’s religious nationalist status quo

October 13, 2020

Turkey Book Talk #126 – Umut Azak of Okan University on this summer’s conversion of the Hagia Sophia from museum to mosque, the history of calls on Turkey’s religious right to take that step, and the future of the country’s religious nationalist status quo under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

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Posted by William Armstrong
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