Turkey will inform the UN’s cultural body UNESCO about steps being taken regarding Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told state broadcaster TRT Haber on Monday.
On Friday, a Turkish court ruled that the sixth-century building’s conversion to a museum was unlawful and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared that it is now once more a mosque.
UNESCO said on Friday it would review the status of the monument as a World Heritage Site, following Erdogan’s enouncement. Hagia Sophia was a Byzantine church for nine centuries before the Ottomans converted it to a mosque.