Uyghurs in Turkey protest Chinese foreign minister’s visit
Hundreds of Uyghurs staged protests in Ankara and Istanbul on March 25, denouncing Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi’s visit to Turkey and demanding that the Turkish government take a stronger stanc...
Turkey's president formally makes Hagia Sophia a mosque
On July 10, the president of Turkey formally converted Istanbul's sixth-century Hagia Sophia back into a mosque and declared it open for Muslim worship, hours after a high court annulled a 1934 dec...
Museum or mosque? Turkey debates historic structure’s status
In its more than 1,400-year existence, the majestic domed structure of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul has served as the Byzantine Empire’s main cathedral, as a mosque under the Ottoman Empire, and as a m...