Coffee must have been the secret weapon of Greek, Slav, and Albanian mercenary units, the stratioti, that fought together throughout Europe in the 15th to 18th centuries. The stratioti must have ...

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 ...

Turkey has been in the news in recent weeks for a role it knows well: peacemaker. As tensions simmer between the United ...

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 ...

In 1221 on the plains of current-day Turkmenistan lay the city of Merv. The town faced a Mongol besiegement under one of ...

You’re looking at a mid-18th-century painting by Jean-Étienne Liotard in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. You’re wondering, possibly, about the shoes. They’re high-heeled ...

In 1301, the Ottoman army achieved a victory against the Eastern Roman army on the outskirts of Anatolia (present-day Turkey region). The Eastern Roman Empire, which had inherited Roman law and the ...

Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent used war and conquest to expand the Ottoman Empire during his bloody but prosperous reign in the 16th century. In addition to the honorific ‘the Magnificent’, he is ...

Separated by vast distances of land and sea, Turkiye and South Asia have been tied together for centuries by faith, power politics and changing alliances. Trending Photos New Delhi: Turkiye’s interest ...

When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan walked into the White House in late September, he needed to come out of the visit with a win. Erdogan had presented the Turkish public a grand vision of ...

Imran Mulla's compelling new book of dynasties and destinies dashed - taking in Turkey, France, the UK, Palestine and India - uncovers a forgotten chapter of Islamic history Abdulmecid II and his ...