The woman, holding a slender black smoking pipe, has much higher nalin than her companion, accentuating the height ...

At the outbreak of the Great War, the Ottoman Empire entered the conflict exhausted, indebted, and politically isolated, with ...

For travelers who have marveled at Istanbul and seek a deeper, richer, and more intimate Turkish experience, the city of ...

A new book titled The Genocide of the Christian Populations in the Ottoman Empire and Its Aftermath (1908--1923) brings ...

Skanderbeg was raised and trained by the Ottoman Empire as one of its most trusted commanders. For years, he fought loyally ...

The Turkish empire, more commonly known as the Ottoman Empire, was formed by tribes in Anatolia in 1299. It eventually grew to become one of the most powerful states in the world during the 15th and ...

The Republic of Turkey is a continuation of the Ottoman Empire, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday. In remarks made during a commemoration ceremony to mark the centenary of the death of ...

The Last Days of the Ottoman empire: 1918-1922. By Ryan Gingeras. Allen Lane; 368 pages; $47.95 and £30 As it turned out, more than six centuries of Ottoman rule ended with a whimper rather than a ...

Holly Williams samples some just-delicious desserts in Turkey: On the shores of the Bosphorus, the strait of water that divides Europe on one bank from Asia on the ...

Turkish delight The owner of an antique shop in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul sips a cup of Turkish coffee Coffee houses gave men somewhere to congregate other than in homes, mosques or markets, ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is 'trying to reinstate the Turkish empire' with 'terrorist attacks' supporting Azerbaijan in Karabakh, Armenia's Prime Minister has claimed. Nikol Pashinyan said the ...