Bahadır Gülle discusses the real meaning of Hagia Sophia's conversion back to a mosque by President Erdoğan within the framework of the historical background of the relation between state and religion in the Turkish republic.

Bahadır Gülle is a former Turkish diplomat and a visiting scholar at the University of Cologne.
He tweets at https://twitter.com/BahadGulle.

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Narrated by: C. Tahir Şanlı (https://twitter.com/tahirsanli)