Turkish court rules Hagia Sophia can be turned into a mosque

Turkey’s highest administrative court has issued a ruling that paves the way for the government to convert Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia back into a mosque. The Council of State threw its weight Friday behind a petition brought by a religious group and annulled a 1934 cabinet decision that changed the 6th-century building into a museum. Hagia Sophia was the main seat of the Eastern Orthodox church for centuries, but became a mosque after the Ottoman capture of the city in 1453. The