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September 6, 1955: Turkey’s Kristallnacht

Sep 6, 2020 2:00 pm By Uzay Bulut

September 6, 1955 started just like any other day for the Greeks, Armenians, and Jews of ‎Istanbul—or Constantinople. ‎”I resided in Cengelkoy with my wife and two children back then,” wrote Apostolos Nikolaidis ‎in the book I Nihta ton Kristallon. ‎”Just as protests were starting in Taksim, I left my shop in Karakoy and went […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Muslim persecution of Christians, Turkey Tagged With: 1955, Istanbul, September 6

Turkey: Erdogan converts historic Chora church into mosque

Aug 21, 2020 9:00 am By Robert Spencer

The conversion of Hagia Sophia to a mosque, followed so closely by this conversion of the Chora church, is a declaration of Islamic supremacism. Erdogan is signaling the victory of Islam and its supremacy not only over Christianity, although that is certainly part of what he is doing, but also over Ataturk’s secularism. Ataturk made […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic supremacism, Turkey Tagged With: Chora church, Istanbul

Greek Orthodox Istanbulites slam Turkish Presidency’s video depicting Christian minorities in comfort

Aug 2, 2020 9:00 am By Robert Spencer

“The video didn’t show Greek Orthodox Istanbulites’ forced migration out of the city that used to be 98-percent occupied by their ancestors because they were under such political pressure.” Indeed. And clearly the Erdogan regime is going in the direction opposite that of safeguarding the rights of Christians in Turkey. “Greek Orthodox Istanbulites slam Turkish […]

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Filed Under: Muslim persecution of Christians, Turkey Tagged With: Fahrettin Altun, Istanbul, Istanbul Greeks Universal Federation, Recep Tayyip Edogan

Turkey: Thousands of Muslims screaming ‘Allahu akbar’ celebrate ‘reconquest’ of Hagia Sophia

Jul 24, 2020 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer

“Allahu akbar” means Allah is greater, i.e., greater than your god, and Turks today are making no effort to hide their supremacist delight. “Videos of the Greek dismay were circulated gleefully among the crowd in Istanbul.” This is no surprise, since Hagia Sophia as a mosque from 1453 to 1935 stood as a symbol of […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic supremacism, Turkey Tagged With: Allahu akbar, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul

Turkey’s Religious Affairs top dog: ‘Hagia Sophia shouldn’t only be place of worship,’ should be ‘a madrasa inside’

Jul 14, 2020 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Training a new generation of jihadis and Islamic supremacists inside what was the foremost cathedral in Christendom for nearly a millennium — what could be more deliciously illustrative of the triumph and supremacy of Islam? “Turkey’s Top Imam Now Wants to Build an Islamic School at Hagia Sophia,” by Tasos Kokkinidis, Greek Reporter, July 12, […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic supremacism, madrassas, Turkey Tagged With: Ali Erbaş, Diyanet, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul

Turkey: MP says “Decision to convert Hagia Sophia to mosque will make life more difficult for Christians here”

Jul 12, 2020 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Indeed it will, as it is a new indication that Erdogan intends to destroy Turkish secularism altogether and restore Islamic rule to Turkey, which will involve the subjugation of the country’s remaining Christians as dhimmis. “Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan formally makes Hagia Sophia a mosque,” by Suzan Fraser, Associated Press, July 10, 2020: …Turkey’s […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic supremacism, Muslim persecution of Christians, Turkey Tagged With: Garo Paylan, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul

Turkey: Muslims scream “Allahu akbar” at news of Hagia Sophia’s conversion to mosque

Jul 12, 2020 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

This is because “Allahu akbar” does not mean “Allah is great,” as AP has it here, but “Allah is greater,” i.e., superior to your god. The conversion of Hagia Sophia from a museum to a mosque is a simultaneous declaration that Islam is superior to both secularism and Christianity. It is a manifestation of Erdogan’s […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic supremacism, Turkey Tagged With: Allahu akbar, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul

Erdogan signs decree turning Hagia Sophia into a mosque

Jul 10, 2020 11:15 am By Robert Spencer

Russia and Greece, as well as the US, France, and others, have stated their opposition to Hagia Sophia becoming a mosque. That Erdogan would move ahead with this anyway shows that he is not worried about antagonizing either friend (Russia and ostensibly the US) or foe (Greece). He appears to be much more concerned to […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic supremacism, Turkey Tagged With: Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Turkish court rules that Ataturk had no right to convert Hagia Sophia from a mosque to a museum

Jul 10, 2020 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

Hagia Sophia is almost certain to be declared a mosque soon. As I explain below, this is an integral part of Erdogan’s desire to restore the Ottoman caliphate. European leaders seem neither to know or care about the significance and implications of that. “Top Court Declares Hagia Sophia a Mosque,” by Jules Gomes, Church Militant, […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic supremacism, Turkey Tagged With: Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Kemal Ataturk

Turkey’s move to convert Hagia Sophia to a mosque shows worthlessness of Pope/Grand Imam joint declaration

Jun 15, 2020 4:00 pm By Robert Spencer

If the utter worthlessness of the “Human Fraternity Declaration” weren’t already clear, this makes it obvious to everyone except the most indefatigably willfully ignorant. “Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14) “Turkey Moves to Reclaim Basilica as Mosque,” by […]

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Filed Under: Catholic Church, dialogue, Featured, Islamic supremacism, Turkey, Useful idiots Tagged With: Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey: Islamic prayers, Qur’an readings held at Hagia Sophia on the anniversary of the Ottoman jihad conquest

Jun 6, 2020 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

As The History of Jihad explains, the Hagia Sophia, like innumerable other churches, as well as synagogues, Hindu temples, and the houses of worship of other religions, was converted into a mosque in order to demonstrate the victory and superiority of Islam. The secular Turkish regime converted it into a museum, but now the rapidly […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic supremacism, Turkey Tagged With: Hagia Sophia, Istanbul

Turkey: Cross Ripped Off Door of Armenian Church

May 28, 2020 12:00 pm By Uzay Bulut

The Surp Grigor Lusavorich (St. Gregory the Illuminator) Armenian Church in Istanbul’s Kuzguncuk district has been attacked, the newspaper Agos reported. On May 23, an unknown assailant ripped off a cross from the church door. The moment of the attack was caught on surveillance cameras. This was the second attack against a church in Istanbul […]

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Filed Under: Muslim persecution of Christians, Non-Muslims in Muslim countries, Turkey Tagged With: Istanbul, Kuzguncuk, Surp Grigor Lusavorich (St. Gregory the Illuminator) Armenian Church

Turkey: Man attempts to burn down Istanbul church, blames Christianity ‘for spread of coronavirus’

May 24, 2020 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

“The individual known by the initials M.K. is said to suffer from mental problems.” Of course. It is astonishing how often we hear that violent Muslims are suffering from mental problems. It’s striking how comparatively seldom we hear about mentally ill Christians behaving violently toward Muslims. Might there be another factor that makes this kind […]

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Filed Under: Turkey Tagged With: Bakırköy, coronavirus, Dzınunt Surp Asdvadzadzni Armenian Orthodox Church, Istanbul

Turkey’s Presidential Communications Director hints on Twitter that Hagia Sophia will soon be made into a mosque

May 14, 2020 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

Erdogan has made clear his desire to make the Hagia Sophia into a mosque, and recently the Turks have taken serious steps in that direction. The West generally remains indifferent to or even unaware of the aggressive and supremacist implications of this. “Is there a plan to convert Hagia Sophia into a mosque on the […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic supremacism, Turkey Tagged With: Hagia Sophia, Istanbul

Turkey: Muslims fire shots at Christian journalist’s home, “scaring and intimidating for Assyrians”

Apr 21, 2020 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Once again, the terror imperative. “And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know, whom Allah knows.” (Qur’an 8:60) “Christian Journalist Targeted in Turkey,” International Christian […]

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Filed Under: Assyrians, Jihadist intimidation and thuggery, Turkey Tagged With: Isa Karatus, Istanbul, Mardin

“Refugee” “child” in Europe wears t-shirt celebrating Islamic conquest of Constantinople in 1453

Apr 20, 2020 4:00 pm By Robert Spencer

What are the chances that this young man will gratefully accept the aid that Europe offers him, and become a loyal, stable, productive citizen of a European state? I have often noted that many of the migrants come with a supremacist ideology that they mean to impose upon their new homes. This young man’s t-shirt […]

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Filed Under: Eurabia, Featured, immigration Tagged With: Constantinople, Istanbul

Will Hagia Sophia Again Become a Mosque?

Apr 20, 2020 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

In 537, the Hagia Sophia was completed, as a church, in Constantinople. It remained the largest and grandest church in Christendom for nearly a millennium, until it was converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1453. The Muslims soon destroyed the bells, altar, iconostasis, and other relics, and the mosaics […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic supremacism, Turkey Tagged With: Constantinople, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey Uses Hagia Sophia as Mosque for Islamic Prayer Again

Mar 24, 2020 2:00 pm By Uzay Bulut

As much of the world is struggling against the coronavirus pandemic, the Islamists in Turkey appear to hold on to their everlasting agenda: Forced Islamization and violation of non-Muslims. Adhan (Islamic call to prayer) and the Koranic verses  Surat Al-Fath and Surat An Nasr were recited by two “imams” of the Hagia Sophia Church/museum, the […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic supremacism, Turkey Tagged With: Hagia Sophia, Istanbul

Erdogan to hold migration summit with Merkel and Macron, but not Greece’s Mitsotakis

Mar 14, 2020 12:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

“Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced he will be hosting a migration summit with French and German leaders but declined to invite Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.” One wonders what France’s Macron and Germany’s Merkel hope to accomplish, beyond an ego boost and an appearance of willingness to “negotiate.” The fact that Erdogan did […]

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Filed Under: France, Germany, immigration, Turkey, Useful idiots Tagged With: Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, Istanbul, Recep Tayyip Edogan

Turkey: Demonstrators protest Trump peace plan, hold signs saying “Jerusalem belongs to Islam”

Jan 30, 2020 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Once again, supporters of the “Palestinians” invoke Islam. Yet mainstream Western analysts continue to ignore Islam in examining the Israeli/ “Palestinian” conflict. This is to the severe detriment of their peace plans, as The Palestinian Delusion shows in detail. “‘Jerusalem belongs to Islam’: Thousands across Turkey protest Trump’s Mideast plan,” Yeni Şafak, January 29, 2020: […]

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Filed Under: Donald Trump, Featured, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestinian jihad, Turkey Tagged With: Istanbul

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