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Re:Istanbul's Blue Tile Paradise by resolutebat on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @04:12PM (#36700976)
It was an actual scare quote free mosque from 1453 to 1934, so if anything the secular museum phase was out of character.
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Re:Istanbul's Blue Tile Paradise by OkayPhysicist on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @07:11PM (#36702918)
It's not a coincidence that the conversion to a museum coincided with Ataturk's sweeping reforms in making a secular state. The reversion is a mark of a return to fundamentalism and a decline into theocracy.
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Re:Istanbul's Blue Tile Paradise by Scarblac on Thursday July 13, 2023 @03:34AM (#36706080)
Hopefully there's something in between a pure secular state vs fundamentalism and theocracy that they'll settle on.
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