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The Art of Remembering: Sedat Bornovalı on History, Memory & Meaning – Turkish Airlines

B.J. Cunningham speaks with Sedat Bornovalı about history, memory, Istanbul and Hagia Sophia for the Turkish Airlines series.

Hagia Sophia: Secrets of the 1,600-year-old megastructure – CNN

CNN Travel explores Hagia Sophia’s layered history, architecture, myths and cultural memory, with expert commentary from Sedat Bornovalı on the monument’s Byzantine and Ottoman...

Hagia Sophia on Netflix (Turkish, with English subtitles)

Hagia Sophia, Papal Visits and More (Turkish)

Sedat Bornovalı and Hayri Fehmi Yılmaz — History Talks, Episode 159 (TRT2) (Turkish)

How Hagia Sophia Became Hagia Sophia — GZT Alfa (Turkish)

The Hagia Sophia Experience Museum (Turkish)

Teke Tek Bilim — Hagia Sophia (revisited) (Turkish)

Times of Türkiye: An Interview inside Hagia Sophia (Turkish)

Hagia Sophia: Mehmed the Conqueror’s Will Was Not Honoured… (Turkish)

BBC — The Mosaics in Hagia Sophia (Turkish)

BBC — The Mosaics of Hagia Sophia: Video Interview (Turkish)

As Worship Begins in Hagia Sophia… (Turkish)

The okuryazar Series — “The Longest Poem in History: Hagia Sophia” (Turkish)