Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is leading prayers at the Hagia Sophia, linking his religious views to the neo-Ottoman agenda and the history of Constantinople.
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Updated Jul 24
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is leading prayers at the Hagia Sophia, linking his religious views to the neo-Ottoman agenda and the history of Constantinople.
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Erdoğan promotes a neo-Ottoman agenda while leading prayers at Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.1 source
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The entities involved
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Hagia Sophia
mosque, museum, and former church in Istanbul, Turkey
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
President of Turkey since 2014
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Constantinople
capital of the Eastern Roman, Latin and Ottoman Empires, currently Istanbul, Turkey
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