Turkey Again Points Fingers at Greece
- Written by E.Tsiliopoulos
Turkey is continuing provocations over the issue of the Agia Sophia cathedral through an announcement by its foreign ministry stating that "Turkey has nothing to learn from Greece, on the issue of religious freedoms."
"Turkey has always shown special care for the sanctity of religious venues, while it's known to all how religious spaces and cultural monuments of the Ottoman period in Greece. Despite a Muslim community that numbers thousands, Athens remains the only European capital that does not have a mosque for prayer," the announcement ends.
The issue has again come to a head after innuendos by Turkish deputy prime minister Bülent Arınç that the former Grand cathedral of the Byzantine Empire, mosque after 1453, and currently museum, be reconverted into a mosque.
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