It was converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, then became a museum in 1935. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who critics say is chipping away at the ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday confirmed the reopening of a mosque in Istanbul converted from an ancient ...

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Erdogan will inaugurate the Great Mosque of Tirana, the largest mosque in the Balkans, which has been paid for by Turkey. Some 600 Turkish companies employ more than 15,000 people in Albania ...

The new Namazgah mosque in Tirana is one of the largest in the Balkans. Erdogan met with Albanian President Bajram Begaj and later with Prime Minister Edi Rama, with whom he has close ties.

and asked its citizens to avoid visits to the mosque and nearby areas until further notice. Pakistan is the third stopover of Erdogan’s three-nation trip, which also brought him to the two ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday confirmed the reopening for Muslim worship of a mosque in Istanbul converted from an ancient Byzantine Orthodox church. "The Kariye mosque in its ...