Turkey’s top cleric has been attacked for comments deemed offensive to the modern republic’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk during a sermon at Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia which was reconverted to a mosque.
Ali Erbas, head of the top religious body known as Diyanet, presided over prayers at the monument on Friday at a ceremony attended by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and thousands of others.
