Turkey: They turned the Chora Monastery in Constantinople into a mosque – On 23 February the first prayer
According to Yeni Safak, the conversion into a mosque has been completed with the laying of the red carpets
“People come to touch the walls”: Fears for Constantinople’s crumbling Byzantine past
Turkish city’s pre-Ottoman heritage is falling away through lack of care or being obscured for political purposes
Anthony Blinken at the PM Mitsotakis’ house in Chania
Earlier, the head of American diplomacy had met in Constantinople with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan and the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan