Hagia Sophia, a major tourist attraction, has been the scene of Islam-linked activities in recent years. In 2018, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan controversially recited a verse from the Quran in ...

Erdogan, who celebrated the reopening from Ankara, ordered its conversion in August 2020 – a month after reopening the former historical basilica of the Hagia Sophia to Muslim worship.

Last May, the same Council gave Erdogan the greenlight to turn the Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque. The Kariye Camii Museum is located in Fatih, Istanbul’s most populous and religiously conservative ...

The once poor kid who escaped from a Cuban immigrant housing project, managed to study at a university, became a respected lawyer, was elected mayor of Union City and rose to the US Congress, was sent ...

In July 2020, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan turned the Hagia Sophia, an ancient Christian cathedral, from a museum into a mosque, undoing its transformation in 1934 from a mosque to a ...

Authorities in Turkey have sealed off a luxury spa that was set up by illegally modifying a 1,500-year-old cistern near Hagia ...

A tourist faced unexpected harassment at Hagia Sophia—what happened at Turkey’s iconic site that’s causing international ...

In addition to the car, Erdogan also gifted Prabowo a pair of vases and a frame containing a prayer poem in Arabic.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned on Thursday that US President Donald Trump's plan to relocate the residents of Gaza to neighboring countries is a significant threat to global stability.

A beloved Columbia restaurant will return to business in a fresh home this week. Sophia's, which serves Italian cuisine, is set to open its new set of doors at 3910 Peachtree Drive, Suite H ...

ANKARA, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump was making "wrong calculations" regarding the Middle East, adding that heeding ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday blasted US President Donald Trump’s plan for the Gaza Strip, stating that no one has the authority to expel Gazans from their homeland ...