Continuing the propaganda show set up in Hagia Sophia by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish Foreign Ministry called on Greece to “wake up from the dream of Byzantium, from which it has not woken up for 567 years”, calling Greece as “Europe’s spoiled kid” while on the occasion of the burning of the Turkish flag by protesters in Thessaloniki, it went so far as to say that “these racist heads have not learned a lesson from history and they should remember what happened in the Aegean to those who did not show respect to the Turkish flag”.
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The response from the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs was immediate: “The international community of the 21st century observes stunned the delirium of religious and nationalist fanaticism of today’s Turkey. They have been condemned and are unworthy of an answer, while they expose internationally more and more those who utter them and incite them”.
The reason for this title was the reference to the speech of the head of religious affairs Ali Erbas who said that he who had changed the use of Hagia Sophia from a mosque to a museum is cursed.