English transcript

What did you first feel when you heard the prayer?

Don't really have a specific opinion about it. It sounds like I would expect from an Islamic country.

Okay, it's not Islamic country, we don't like this saying.

-Okay. -It's a secular country, we don't have a religion.

Okay, okay, okay. I can understand that. I have not been to many...

Yeah, I know. Majority of population is Muslim, but our country, on the constitution, it doesn't have a religion.

Okay.

So everybody can have any religion they want.

And we also have churches and for the Jewish people we have the places.

But of course you don't know it, that's that's normal.

No, I don't know a lot. But we wanted to visit the Hagia Sophia and get shawarma and then go home again.

You know it used to be a church?

-Yeah, it was a cathedral. -Yes.

Yes. When it was Constantinople.

And then when Ottoman Empire took over and changed it to Istanbul, then it became a mosque.

Before that there weren't any Muslims here?

No, there weren't. It was for Byzantine Empire, which is now Greece.

Yeah.

Yeah. So, and now Greeks are angry with us a bit.

But we are brothers and sisters, of course. It's just history.

Yes.

And that's our history. A little lesson?

Yes, thank you a lot.

Okay. And when I come to Netherlands, I will hear from history of your country.

-Yes. -Yeah. -Okay?