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Anonymous ID: 357ab9 March 30, 2019, 5:19 p.m. No.5984440 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>4465

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-to-solve-syria-issue-on-the-field-after-polls-erdogan-142281

Turkey to solve Syria issue on the field after polls: Erdoğan

Turkey's president on March 30 said that they will "definitely" solve Syria issue on the field after the local elections in Turkey.

"We will definitely solve Syria issue on the field, if possible, and not on the table, as the first work after elections," Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in an election rally in Istanbul.

Erdoğan said that those who wish to close Turkey's southern borders with a terror corridor will never find a chance to do that.

“We have taught the necessary lesson to those who tried to do that and we will do the same to them in the future,” he added.

Turkey has, several times, stressed that it will not “allow the formation of a terrorist corridor along its southern border with Syria,” and towards that end has promised an operation east of the Euphrates in Syria, against the YPG- the Syrian offshoot of the illegal PKK. PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU.

The expected operation would follow up on two other Turkish operations in Syria since 2016, Operation Euphrates Shield and Operation Olive Branch.

Anonymous ID: 357ab9 March 30, 2019, 5:21 p.m. No.5984465 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>4481

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https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1RA1ZB

Turkey's Erdogan says he plans to change Hagia Sophia's title from museum to mosque

Anonymous ID: 357ab9 March 30, 2019, 5:22 p.m. No.5984481 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>4573

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https://www.uscirf.gov/news-room/press-releases-statements/uscirf-condemns-erdogan-s-threats-change-status-hagia-sophia

USCIRF Condemns Erdogan’s Threats to Change Status of Hagia Sophia

WASHINGTON, DC – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today condemned recent comments made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatening to convert the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul from a museum into a mosque. The site, a Greek Orthodox cathedral for nearly 1,000 years, was forcibly converted by Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II into a mosque in 1453, became a museum under the Atatürk government in 1935, and was designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a World Heritage Site in 1985.

“Hagia Sophia bears profound historical and spiritual significance to Muslims and Christians alike, and its status as a museum must be maintained,” said USCIRF Chair Tenzin Dorjee. “President Erdoğan’s comments are needlessly provocative and hurtful to Turkey’s minority religious communities. Additionally, the implications of such an action are compounded by the deteriorating landscape for religious freedom, democracy, and human rights in Turkey.”

In response to Erdoğan’s most recent comments, UNESCO officials reportedly have stated that changing Hagia Sophia’s status requires the approval of UNESCO.

In its 2018 Annual Report, USCIRF placed Turkey on Tier 2 for engaging in or tolerating religious freedom violations that meet at least one of the elements of the “systematic, ongoing, egregious” standard used to designate a “country of particular concern” under the International Religious Freedom Act.