Hagia Sophia: ‘Erdogan’s intention was to shock’

Name: Hagia Sophia: ‘Erdogan’s intention was to shock’
Uploaded: 2020-07-24T11:03:32+00:00
Duration: 3 min 29 s
Description: Marc Pierini, visiting scholar from Carnegie Europe, describes the reconversion of the Hagia Sophia into a mosque as a figurative end to Turkey as secular, after nearly 100 years. He says the intention of President Erdogan was to shock the Christian and Western world, and underscore Turkey as a powerful, assertive, and disruptive nation.

Issued on: 24/07/2020 - 13:03

Marc Pierini, visiting scholar from Carnegie Europe, describes the reconversion of the Hagia Sophia into a mosque as a figurative end to Turkey as secular, after nearly 100 years. He says the intention of President Erdogan was to shock the Christian and Western world, and underscore Turkey as a powerful, assertive, and disruptive nation.