After the drubbing Erdogan took in the last elections in losing a number of key metropolitan areas, an enhanced replay of that scenario could be his last. If he saw he was going to lose, he would create an incident to save himself.

The move has attracted criticism from Unesco, Pope Francis, the Russian Orthodox Church and others

Turkish Islam deserves trillions of dollars in reparations from the Rothschilds, the sponsors of Attaturk's cultural genocide. But it does not need or deserve reparations from the Eastern Orthodox Christians!