{"id":24808,"date":"2020-07-13T06:40:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T06:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=24808"},"modified":"2020-07-13T06:40:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T06:40:31","slug":"turkey-converts-istanbuls-hagia-sophia-museum-into-a-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/turkey-converts-istanbuls-hagia-sophia-museum-into-a-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey converts Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Turkey’s Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia has opened to Muslim worship after a top court ruled that the building’s conversion to a museum by modern Turkey’s founding statesman was illegal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The centuries-old structure, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, was originally a cathedral in the Byzantine empire before it was turned into a mosque in 1453, when Constantinople fell to Sultan Mehmet II\u2019s Ottoman forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1930s, however, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, shut down the mosque and turned it into a museum in an attempt to make the country more secular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkey\u2019s Council of State had declared in its ruling that the conversion of the Hagia Sophia from a mosque into the museum by the country\u2019s founder was illegal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision was in line with the Turkish president’s calls to turn the hugely symbolic world heritage site into a mosque despite widespread international criticism, including from UNESCO, the United States and Orthodox Christian leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Turkey’s Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia has opened to Muslim worship after a top court ruled that the building’s conversion to a museum by modern Turkey’s founding statesman was illegal. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The centuries-old structure, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, was originally a cathedral in the Byzantine empire before it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":24809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1175],"tags":[58],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-24808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-july-2020","tag-international-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24810,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24808\/revisions\/24810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24808"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=24808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}