in order To entrench their power, the autocrats excellent to handle the Story. The intention expressed by the Turkish president Erdogan to convert it again into a mosque, the hagia Sophia of Istanbul is not a toquade, or even simply a provocative anti-christian. It is an episode of a cultural war world against the West and its liberal principles. By posing as an equal to the sultan Mehmed II “the Conqueror” who took Constantinople in the Fifteenth century, the head of State is trying to consolidate his tyrannical power in Turkey and to legitimise its ambitions néoimpériales around…
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