Erdogan opens controversial Taksim Square mosque
Plans for the mosque, which towers over a monument to the secular republic, sparked protests in 2013.
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Plans for the mosque, which towers over a monument to the secular republic, sparked protests in 2013.
Plans for the mosque, which towers over a monument to the secular republic, sparked protests in 2013.
Erdogan opens controversial Taksim Square mosque © Reuters The Taksim Mosque has capacity for 4,000 people Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has inaugurated a mosque in Taksim Square, Istanbul - the plans for which sparked a wave of protests in 2013. Thousands attended the ceremony, with some praying in the square itself because the mosque was full. The mosque features prominently next to a public space traditionally seen as a symbol of the secular Turkish republic. It also dwarfs a monument to the republic, and its founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. "Taksim Mosque now occupies a prominen...