The Greeks of Cappadocia, in central-eastern Anatolia, created their own flourishing culture in ancient times that thrived ...

Population surveillance. The carrying of identification while traveling. Add to that the public presence of diverse religions ...

President Erdogan is calculating he can ride out the upheaval caused by the arrest of his top rival, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem ...

An Osaka Metropolitan University historian has found that the Ottoman Empire’s seeming religious tolerance stemmed from ...

As Greece counts 200 years from the War of independence and stands proud as a member of the EU, the mind reels to the ...

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...

Glen Frederic Matheson, an Armenian-American lawyer whose great-grandfather served as an officer and chief architect in the Ottoman Empire, has obtained Turkish citizenship, adopting the name "Murat." ...

So, what lies behind Turkey’s gesture? PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu shows a map of the Gaza Strip and the nearby Israeli localities, with the arrows pointing to the Philadelphi Corridor ...

The Turkish leaders consider themselves the true heirs of the Ottoman Empire, and the dream of returning to the glory of the empire is very strong among a large part of the elites and even Turkish ...

Night - Clear. Winds NNW at 11 to 12 mph (17.7 to 19.3 kph). The overnight low will be 49 °F (9.4 °C). Sunny with a high of 72 °F (22.2 °C). Winds variable at 7 to 14 mph (11.3 to 22.5 kph ...

Particular attention has fallen on the Turkish Ottoman Empire. For Ottomanists. this sudden interest can present some problems, scholars’ working within the field have known for decades the ...

To understand the nature of current Turkish-Russian relations ... times and the remarkable scientific advancements of that era. If we consider the map of the Ottoman Empire, it would be classified as ...