In the latest provocation by Turkey, and the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a group of students from an Islamic religious school recited passages from the Quran in the Hagia Sophia.

At a ceremony, 35 students of a religious school dressed in white recited the Quran at the UNESCO World Heritage Site which was converted into an Islamic Mosque.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan had recently stated that “we will put the Hagia Sophia mosque in our passports”, demonstrating Ankara’s ideological obsession with Hagia Sophia, despite there being numerous impressive mosques in Constantinople built during the Ottoman Empire.

These plans come in the shadow of the vandalism at the World Heritage Site, with many people crowding once again inside the temple.