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Source: https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2020/7/11/hagia-sophia-resurrection-paves-way-for-al-aqsa-liberation-erdogan

Turkey's President Erdogan Vows to "Liberate Al-Aqsa Mosque" from Israel

(Al-Araby Al-Jadeed-UK) Turkey's President Erdogan vowed Friday to "liberate Al-Aqsa mosque" in Jerusalem from Israel, the official Turkish presidency website said. Erdogan also announced Muslim prayers at the Hagia Sophia museum, first constructed as a cathedral in the Christian Byzantine Empire and converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. The mosque became a museum in 1935.

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