Cypriot MP urges Hagia Sophia museum restoration at Istanbul summit

Cypriot delegation head and vice-president of the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe, Nicos Tornaritis, called for Hagia Sophia to be returned to museum status during a meeting of the assembly’s cultural committee held in Istanbul on Tuesday.

Tornaritis said the restoration of museum status was necessary to safeguard the monument’s “universal, historical and cultural value”....