Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a speech on Friday linked Ankara's much-criticized decision to convert a Byzantine-era monument into a mosque with a pledge to "liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque" ...

For Turkey’s Christians, the country’s decision to reconvert the Hagia Sophia into a mosque represents yet another blow to their already marginalized community. Last month, Turkish President Recep ...

For Turkey’s embattled Christian communities, the destruction and erasure of Christian cultural heritage is nothing new. But the case of the Hagia Sophia’s conversion is particularly egregious. As the ...

The UN's cultural agency UNESCO Friday said it deeply regretted Turkey's decision to turn the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul from a museum into a mosque, lamenting there had been no prior dialogue on the ...