Its history spans the late Ottoman Empire, in which the Turks ruled Jerusalem from 1516 until 1917, to the British Mandate, ...

Like Gallipoli, again, any attempt to control the Strait of Hormuz would seem doomed to defeat and humiliation.

Thrace is a historical region in the southeastern Balkans, bounded by the Maritsa River, the Aegean Sea, the Black Sea, the Sea of Marmara and the Sredna Gora mountain range. Today, the area is ...

Greek revolt until the War of Independence started as early as 1481, with Greeks taking arms against the Ottomans 123 times until 1821 ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday commemorated the Çanakkale Victory during the Gallipoli campaign of the Ottoman ...

Eski Foça, a town on Turkey’s Aegean coast, has been shaped by thousands of years of history and conquered by dozens of civilizations. Yet it still feels sheltered from the chaos of the modern world.

Sultan Bayezid I, also known as Yıldırım Bayezid, the fourth sultan of the Ottoman Empire, earned his nickname “Yıldırım,” or ...

More than a thousand years after a ship vanished off the coast of modern-day Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a wreck that might reshape our ideas of the medieval world.

Gaziantep in Turkey is renowned as the baklava capital, famed for its centuries-old tradition and unique Antep pistachios that give its baklava a distinctive flavor and texture.

We begin with Halil Pasha, the Ottoman painter who captured Istanbul’s fading imperial elegance at the turn of the 20th century. From there we step into another kind of nostalgia at Pano Wine Bar, the ...

Canakkale is a unique epic in which not only a battle, but also faith, sacrifice, love of homeland, and consciousness of being a nation were proclaimed to entire world’ says Erdogan - Anadolu Ajansı ...

The Sutro Library holds a large manuscript collection that once belonged to a wealthy Brit whose hobby was Pacific ...