The State Committee of the Supreme Court of Turkey completed the review yesterday and decided whether to approve the Hagia Sophia with a history of nearly 1500 years of history.The outside world pays attention to Turkish secularization traditions. They are retreating. Greece and the United States are opposed. They have scolded Turkey to incite nationalism and religious fanaticism and exacerbate division.
The court issued a ruling within 15 days
The St. Sophia Cathedral in Istanbul was ordered by the Byzantine Empire monarch Chasty I of the Empire of Byzantine.After the Ottoman Empire captured Constantinople in 1453, the church was changed to a mosque. By 1935, it was converted from the Turkish secular government to a museum and opened to the world.Cultural heritage.
Although Turkey's legislation in 1934, religious rituals were prohibited from holding a religious ritual within the scope of the Saint Sophia Cathedral, in recent years, Islamic organizations in Turkey have held religious activities to demonstrate from time to time to hold religious activities around the church, requiring to change the Sophia Cathedral back to the mosque. For exampleIslamic priests recite the Cocaer in the museum, for the first time in the past 85 years.President Erdogan insisted that the Turks regarded the Turks before the local election last year. Saint Sophia was regarded as a mosque, also known as using Sorfia as a museum. It was a very important mistake.Last month, Erdogan's whereabouts of Saint Sophia were submitted to the court to decide, emphasizing that it would take necessary actions after the decision was released, also known as national sovereignty, and Greece had no right to intervene.
The Turkish State Council will issue a written sentence within 15 days.Some analysts have pointed out that in recent years, many historical sites of Turkish countries have been changed to mosque. The State Council also ruled last year that the Church of another Byzantine site in Istanbul should not continue to be used as a museum.favorable.
Converted to please Muslim nationalists
Anthony Skinner, the director of the British risk management agency Verisk Maplecroft, pointed out that turning the Saint Sophia Cathedral into a mosque can please Muslims and nationalists, maintain the tension between Greece, and also show Turkey's powerful forces.For Erdogan, it can be described as one stone and two birds.
Greece, who has been self -sustaining Byzantine Hyundai, has always opposed the nature of changing the Saint Sophia Cathedral.Domestic political interests.Tuesday, Patriarch Bartholomew I, warned on Tuesday that turning the Saint Sophia Cathedral into a Mosque would disappoint millionsIt is not a good thing.
Greece and the United States oppose the relief of nationalism
U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo promoted Turkey to keep the Saint Sophia Cathedral as a museum and ensure that it is open to everyone. It is believed that changing the Holy Sophia Cathedral will weaken the heritage of this building and damage it as a bridge with different belief traditions and culture.EssenceUNESCO has sent a letter to the Turkish government on the incident, but has not received a reply.
