Coffee must have been the secret weapon of Greek, Slav, and Albanian mercenary units, the stratioti, that fought together ...
In a new book, a Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (SFS) professor challenges the traditional notion that the Ottoman Empire crumbled slowly, as a result of ethnic and ...
At the turn of the 15th century, the Ottoman Empire was at the zenith of its power. However, its success did not go unnoticed ...
A six-hundred-year empire broke under the strain of modern war. From Gallipoli to the Arab Revolt, defeats, internal tensions ...
Turkey has been in the news in recent weeks for a role it knows well: peacemaker. As tensions simmer between the United ...
The Greeks of Cappadocia, in central-eastern Anatolia, created their own flourishing culture in ancient times that thrived in the region for millennia. However, the Great Catastrophe of Smyrna and ...
Christop Waltz also stars in director Luc Besson's mixed-bag adaptation of the 1897 horror novel.
Speculation about a possible U.S. military attack on Iran has once again captured global attention. Warships repositioned, air power signaled, and ...
Family photos reflect ‘aesthetics of citizenship’ and performance of identity, said Turkish scholar Özge Baykan Calafato at ...
Recall the image etched in memory: a bulldozer driven by fighters of the self-proclaimed Islamic State smashing through the ...
Memoirs by the Mughal royalty – specially Babur and Jahangir – are well known. Less known and analysed are the writings of ...