From 'children of the crescent' to 'Papal tolerance': Hacı's transformation over the years: 'We are against those who are slaves'

As the repercussions of Pope Leo XIV's first foreign visit to Turkey and his holding of a mass here continue, the messages of praise for the Pope from figures close to the AKP also continue to be a subject of debate.

Hacı Yakışıklı, who criticized those warning about the political messages behind the Pope's visit to Turkey and stated that no ulterior motive should be sought behind the mass, drew attention with a statement he made in a post about the Pope just four years ago.

While it is seen that Yakışıklı made the same criticisms today that he once opposed four years ago, the reasons behind this transformation that took place in such a short time have become a subject of curiosity.

Here is the past and present of Hacı Yakışıklı's views on the Pope:

His post from 2021:

We are against the Pope, his stamps, and those who are slaves to him!

We are the children of the crescent!

We are Mount Hira!

Just as Turkey tore up and threw away the maps drawn with a ruler for it, it will also break the hands behind those stamps!

They will rage while Turkey, which disrupts the Greater Middle East Project (BOP), marches on.

His post from 2025:

Vatican Head of State Pope Leo XIV made his first visit to Turkey.

It made a big splash in the world.

As for us, some are lining up conspiracy theories.

In our country, where the Pope has come, the call to prayer is recited 5 times a day from 89 thousand 817 mosques.

He will also hold his mass with the tolerance and permission of our state.

News Source: 12punto