Planned new bridge from Asia to Europe via the Bosporus
Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan gave last Wednesday at the inauguration of the project of a new 10-lane bridge over the Bosphorus insight into his understanding of history and the role of Turkey in Europe.
The Catholic News Agency kath.net reported as only about the event: "With the conquest of Constantinople Opel and the defeat of the Byzantine Empire in the 15th century, the Muslim Ottomans had an 'Age of Enlightenment' initiated, said Turkish Prime Minister."
The reign of the Byzantines in Turkey today, however, as he called "dark chapter". Significantly, the celebration of the foundation stone of the bridge project took place on the anniversary of the conquest of Byzantium place (29 May 1453).
