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 ...

To make Turkey Ottoman again requires the kind of violence, censorship, and vitriol that Erdogan has indeed shown himself ready to use.

The Battle of Vienna was a disaster for the Ottoman Empire in September 1683, but may have had much more disturbing, far-reaching effects centuries later.

German-born, Istanbul-based Turkish artist Taner Ceylan, a prominent Turkish artist whose work deals with the hidden histories of the Ottoman Empire. The now infamous image by Reuters photographer ...

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 ...

Two women pass by a poster in the backdrop showing an image of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of modern Turkey, in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. The ...

The visual culture of the late Ottoman Empire reflected widespread and dramatic reforms. However, while political and social developments in this period have received much attention, the interaction ...

For more than a decade, Bashar Assad presided over a regime that brutally repressed dissent, fueled a devastating civil war and transformed Syria into a proxy battlefield for regional and global ...

It's April 24, 1915. Some 250 Armenian intellectuals are rounded up in Constantinople and imprisoned by Ottoman police. Known as “Red Sunday,” it is today a day of remembrance for a murderous ...

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, ...