A man walks near the Fatih mosque in Istanbul. Built between 1463 and 1470, it was designed to “project the political authority and power of the court,” Diana Darke writes. (Lefteris Pitarakis/AP) ...

Turning the pages of a manuscript copy of the Maʿrifetnāme, an 18th-century encyclopedia authored by the Ottoman scholar and Sufi poet İbrāhīm Ḥaḳḳī Efendi, can lead readers to seventh heaven and the ...

The intricate tapestry of Middle Eastern geopolitics is frequently shaped by deep historical echoes, where centuries-old ...

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 digitized form of newspaper files of the late Ottoman Empire era, made public by the Turkish government and Turkish non-governmental organizations, adds new knowledge on Ottoman society, culture, ...

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." ...

The cities might not seem similar today, but one thing Tripoli and Thessaloniki, Basra and Beirut, Sarajevo and Sana'a all once had in common is that just a little over a century ago they were all ...

I'm Rick Steves. In this city of experiences, one of the most memorable is enjoying a Turkish bath, a ritual that goes back 2 ...