People walk past an advertisement for "Conquest 1453" displayed in snow outside a cinema in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012. Turkey is on a roll these days, uplifted by economic growth and ...

One of the many things mentioned after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks was that Al Qaeda had chosen that date as a way to invert the memory of the day on which the Western world secured its ...

Kemal, Hayreddin, Turgut, Piyale, Uluç, Kılıç Ali, Piri – the outstanding captains and admirals of the Ottoman fleet in the 16th century; there were more, but these are the ones whose names are still ...

A team of academics has successfully identified the route used by Ottoman Sultan Mehmed the Conquerer during his conquest of the Black Sea city of Trabzon in 1461, uncovering paths leading to numerous ...

Hundreds of thousands of people on Saturday turned out in Istanbul to mark the 562nd anniversary of the Ottoman conquest of the city. The huge crowds gathered for a mass ceremony on the outskirts of ...

AMMAN — The Ottoman conquest of the Levant in 1517 had an impact on the economic models of the Mamluk dynasty that ruled the area from 1250 until 1517. One of the Mamluk state monopolies was the sugar ...

In his latest book, historian Emad Abu Ghazi examines the Ottoman occupation, in a bid to settle the debate between the labels 'occupation' and 'conquest' 1517 Al-Ehtelal Al-Othmani Le Misr (“The ...

Topkapi Sarayi spreads across Istanbul’s historic peninsula as a palace of courtyards, pavilions, gardens and collections.

Huge crowds took to the streets of Istanbul to celebrate 563 years since the Ottoman siege that conquered the city. In a speech, President Erdogan used the occasion to condemn the US, Russia and Iran.

Turkey is on a roll these days, uplifted by economic growth and regional diplomacy; now comes an epic about the 15th century fall of Constantinople that fuses national pride with Hollywood-style ...