Once again, Obama goes over the heads of political leaders and straight to the people in a town hall tomorrow at the Tophane Cultural Center in Istanbul, Turkey.
Swamp: President Barack Obama will make two ritual stops in Istanbul tomorrow, on the final day of his weeklong European tour: He will tour "the Blue Mosque,'' a world-renowned national treasure, and he will hold another "town hall.''Obama visits Istanbul Mosque--it's beautiful:
Obama, who plans a meeting with religious leaders in Istanbul in the morning also will tour a museum, the Hagia Sophia, which once was a basilica and later a mosque and remains as a monument to Byzantine architecture. It was completed in 536 and was the world's largest religious monument until 1520.
The Sultan Ahmed Mosque, also known as the Blue Mosque for the thousands of hand-painted tiles that adorn its interior, is the national mosque of Turkey.. It sits across from the Hagia Sophia. It was built between 1609 and 1616.
