The text offers a harsh critique of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decision to reconvert Hagia Sophia into a mosque, describing it as an act that humiliates the Turkish people. The author argues that invoking the right of the conqueror and the law of war six centuries after the fall of Constantinople is an admission of cultural failure. Instead of integrating the history of Asia Minor and creating its own distinct civilization, Turkey behaves like a temporary invader and squatter appropriating “stolen” spiritual creations, thereby exposing even its own religion to blasphemy.
