WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Sens. Bob Menendez, D-New Jersey, and Jim Risch, R-Idaho, ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following joint statement on July 10 in reaction to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's effort to convert the Hagia Museum of Istanbul from a world-famous cultural site into a mosque:

"Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey is a place of deep spiritual significance for people of diverse backgrounds from around the wo . . .

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