Turkey’s major cities are quiet today after a dramatic coup attempt by a faction within the Turkish military. There is still so much we do not yet know and may not know for quite some time. Had the ...

The history of the Turkish republic that celebrated its ninetieth anniversary on October 29 has been marked by societal discord and political convulsions: three military coups, violence between the ...

Turkey's Islamist government under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is preparing to further indoctrinate Turkish schoolchildren in propaganda regarding Israel, Greeks, Armenians, Cyprus and other issues ...

On the morning of February 22, over 500 Turkish soldiers drove into Syria to extract the remains of Suleyman Shah—grandfather of Osman I, the founder of the Ottoman Empire—from a small mausoleum on ...

'The Russo-Turkish Battle at the Damietta Castle on 1770', 1770-1772. Hackert, Jacob Philipp (1737-1807). Found in the collection of the State Central Navy Museum, St. Petersburg. 'The Russo-Turkish ...