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Will European protests prevent the Hagia Sophia Museum becoming a mosque?
A key goal of Turkish Islamists, led by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), is the conversion of the Hagia Sophia Museum back into a mosque. It is not a holy site for Muslims per se, as the mosques in Makkah, Madinah and Al-Aqsa are; the 1,500-year-old Hagia…