The president of the Turkish National Assembly, Nouman Kurtoulmosin a greeting he addressed yesterday at a traditional iftar dinner, due to the holy month of Ramadan for Muslims, said that the function of Hagia Sophia as a mosque is the precursor to the liberation of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

Speaking before an association of religious high school graduates, Nouman Kurtulmus said: “Everything we had planned in our early years, everything we had set as a goal, I won’t mention them one by one, everything was realized, but one thing is missing: God willing, the generation you represent will be able to make it happen in the next period. I’m referring to securing and guiding a new, just world system.”

According to its president Turkish National Assemblythis goal is decoded in a sentence of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan: “As we opened the Hagia Sophia after years of hopes, prayers and wishes, God willing, the opening of the Hagia Sophia, the liberation of the Hagia Sophia, will be the forerunner of the liberation of Al-Aqsa, will be the omen of the liberation of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.”