A Turkish court has ruled that a decades-old decision to convert the famous Hagia Sofia into a museum was unlawful, opening the door to Ankara’s stated plan of turning the ancient structure back into a mosque.
The court ruled on Friday that the 1934 decree converting the ancient Byzantine cathedral into a museum was not lawful. President Tayyip Erdogan has proposed re-purposing the building as a mosque.
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