To Punish The Pope, Turkey Will Turn Hagia Sophia Into A Mosque
It was under Ataturk that Hagia Sophia became a museum — it would have been too much to hope that it might have again become a church both for the diminishing number of Christians in Turkey and for visitors, many of whom come to Istanbul mainly to visit it and similar sites assocated wth pre-Ottoman Turkey, such as the Roman Cisterns, the Hippodrome, the Kariya Djami, as that church, its frescoes having suffered far less damage than those of the Hagia Sophia, has been renamed).
The vindictiveness, the quickness to turn a perfectly obvious remark about the behavior of Turks a century ago, are on display here.