Istanbul

And how can hundreds of thousands of tourist visit a cult place that serves prayer? Erdoğan dismissed these problems: “Like all our mosques, the doors of Hagia Sophia will be wide open to locals and foreigners, Muslims and non-Muslims”, he promised. That promise has since been proven to be a lie.

In Persian the flower is also called لاله اشک lâle-ye ashk, the weeping lily. According to tradition, it bears this name because it witnessed the murder of the pre-Islamic Iranian hero Siavush, and ever since—unlike other lilies—it mourns him with bowed head