“The conversion of the Hagia Sophia into a mosque is both a turning point and the height of hubris. Erdoğan will rather make Turkey into a beacon of Sunni Islam than keep up the appearance of a Western, secular state. The Lausanne status quo limits him, his neo-Ottoman Turkey has buried Kemalism,” writes George Pagoulatos in his article for the Sunday edition of newspaper “Kathimerini”.
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