06.09.2021
Islamist, nationalist outburst from Erdogan on Hagia Sophia
'I returned it [Hagia Sophia] to those who are its owners since the time of Mehmed the Conqueror...Either I will take Byzantium or Byzantium will take me,' Erdogan declared.
HAGIA SOPHIA
21.07.2020
Hagia Sophia, Turkey, Russia and the West
For a year-and-a-half Vartholomeos has been the target of an intensive propaganda campaign by both the Kremlin and the Moscow Patriarchate, which in both the Soviet era and under Putin has been the long arm of Russian soft (and often not so soft) power.
