First Islamic prayers held in Turkey's Hagia Sophia since mosque reconversion

This is dirty politics- Erdogan is playing the Islamic Wahhabi card once again. There are at least 5 other mosques in close proximity to Hagia Sophia but not a single museum of this kind in the whole city. This is not the first time Erdogan is using Wahhabi Islamism to gain a political advantage over his secular rival Kilichardoglou. In the past Erdogan had also published a Kurdish version of Quran and asked support from millions of religious Kurds during his general election campaign.

Erdogan has put hundreds of thousands of free-thinking secular citizens of the country in prisons and promoted wahhabi scumbags from tariqats and wahhabi congregations to key positions in politics and major state owned corporations. By converting Hagia Sophia into a mosque he thinks he is erasing Ataturk's heritage- secularism and scientific free thinking in the country. After the closure of Ataturk Airport and Ataturk Culture Centre in Istanbul this is another threat made against those who don't support him. Speaking of free thinking Erdogan removed the teaching of Darwanism from the curriculum about 3 years ago and opened thousands of tariqat controlled wahhabist schools. After Ataturk's mausoluem in Ankara, Hagia Sophia was the second most visited site by secular citizens of Turkey. Don't be fooled by his defiant attitude when he says no other country has power over his country any longer. This is a very derogatory speech made against Ataturk when you think Ataturk was not under foreign pressure whatsoever when he converted Hagia Sophia to a museum! But here we are, we have this two faced cow who keeps blaming the "foreign powers" when the economy in the country goes down the hill...

Erdogan is systematically dismantling Kemalism and turning Turkey into an islamist state. Turkey should be out of Nato now.

Turkey should be out of Nato now.

@Zaphod, NATO cannot afford to lose Turkey- under Erdogan's ruling the country has been turned into a puppet state; he does everything Trump tells him to do:

And look at these people, how nice they are. Look at them. They’re so easy to deal with. Look at them. Central casting. There’s no Hollywood set where you could produce people that look like them. -Remarks by President Trump Before Bilateral Meeting | Osaka, Japan

Currently Erdogan is building a canal for the US navy. This canal is cutting the western terrace of Marmara Region into half but is also allowing a gateway for the NATO countries such as the US and UK to easily navigate across the Aagean and Black Sea. Under the Montreux Treaty no war ships are allowed to through Bosphorus. In the future if the US and UK declare war against Russia, they will certainly use the canal this menace has been building for them.

NATO cannot afford to lose Turkey- under Erdogan's ruling the country has been turned into a puppet state; he does everything Trump tells him to do:

That’s not true, but it makes good for a story. Erdogan does what he wants, the guy is an Islamist apologist, but that is a completely separate issue of his plans on moving the country further to a Islamic religious theocracy and his relationship with NATO and the US.

The above is a very biased article in the sense that it doesn't include a single voice out of +40million secular citizens of the country. This wasn't not just about Christianity or wahabi Islamism, it was more importantly about the secular values of Turkey!

Hagia Sophia survived worst attack on her integrity, she will go on living well beyond any politician.

Turkey has been on the wrong side of freedom before too, she will find her feet again soon enough. In the mean time Erdogan should be treated like a scummy politician that he is.

As for NATO, it's the beginning of the end IMO. The Russian gas line to Germany is the spearhead that penetrated and broke through the NATO defense barrier. USA and Europe would be deluding itself to believe that Germany can be loyal to NATO when its existence as an industrial power is entirely in the hands of Putin.

Worst still, Germans are narcissistic at the core, there's no reasoning, they only change from suffering at their own hands.

John

NATO cannot afford to lose Turkey- under Erdogan's ruling the country has been turned into a puppet state; he does everything Trump tells him to do:

I do not see that. What makes you think so?