Hagia Sophia ControversyTop of Mind with Julie Rose • Season 1, Episode 1501, Segment 3
Dec 31, 2020 • 13m
Turkey’s nationalist president had an important symbolic win for conservative Islam in 2020. In July, President Erdogan–backed by a Turkish court ruling–converted Hagia Sophia in Istanbul into a working mosque. When the switch was about to happen, many European countries and scholars objected. University of Pittsburgh anthropologist Tugba Tanyeri Erdemir was among them. (Originally aired Jul 9, 2020).
