In 1922, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the modern Turkish Republic, sent the last Ottoman sultan packing aboard a British warship. Two years later, Ataturk banned the caliphate ...

On 6 April 1453, the Siege of Constantinople began under the command of Mehmed II, an Ottoman sultan who was just 21 years old but determined to see through his father’s dream of capturing the ...

Historic Ottoman-era manuscripts, including rare 700-year-old texts, are being meticulously preserved in Irbil's Hiran Tekke ...

At Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul sends a renewed message of solidarity to Palestine – through art, memory and echoes of an ...

The Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the rise of the Ottoman Empire continues ... John Hunyadi’s crusader army and Sultan Murad II’s Ottoman forces.

Protestors in Dhaka see Ottoman Caliph Sultan Abdul Hamid II as 'source of inspiration' to establish an independent ...

Built in 1656 by an Ottoman sultan's mother, the Ottoman fortress of Seddülbahir was severely damaged by the Allied Forces during the Gallipoli battles of World War One. The restoration project ...

“My hero, my icon was Mustafa Kemal Ataturk along with Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II,” he said, referring to the founder of the Turkish Republic and Fatih Mehmet Sultan, the Ottoman sulta ...