This is just one more victory in Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan's plan to Islamize Europe, seize control and ultimately re-establish the Ottoman Empire.
"The only thing that bothers me is the call to prayer, which in my view is nothing more than calling out a Caliphate. I don’t want to have Sharia law here." - Marcel Bauersfeld,
Many viewed this event as both a foreshadowing of the direction in Spain, as well as a provocation towards non-Muslim Spaniards through the reclamation of land that was once under Islamic rule.