Hagia Sofia decision will deepen Turkey’s estrangement
The decision to turn Hagia Sophia back into a mosque signals a gradual severing of links with the West
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- Grassroots pressure
- Conqueror's legacy
- Logic behind Islamisation
- Persistent secular opposition
- Tensions with the West
- Deeper estrangement
- Erdogan's polarising strategy
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