Turkish citizens complain on social media about the bad situation in which Hagia Sophia has found itself, a year after it opened in a mosque.
Even the knob of the central imperial gate, according to what Maria Zacharaki mentions in a bulletin in OPEN, has been broken without being replaced.
Also, dust has covered everything and the monument instead of being better protected, as at least Turkey had promised a year ago when it made it a mosque, has also been damaged.
In fact, as can be seen in the photos that follow in the posts on social media, there is not the required care resulting in dirt and the cables that are hanging have not been repaired, while signs printed on paper have been placed.
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It is noted that the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan himself had paid his first symbolic visit to the Hagia Sophia, in mid-July - approximately - last year.
During that brief visit, Erdogan monitored work inside the building, as reported by the Turkish presidency. "The conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque ended the waiting of our nation," the Turkish president had also said.
However, this decision by Recep Tayyip Erdogan to make the Hagia Sophia a mosque had caused worldwide outcry.