Around 1533, the Ottoman sultan broke custom to marry his favorite concubine Hürrem Sultan — and she soon became the most powerful woman in the empire. She was known by many names: Hürrem Sultan, ...

History The Ottoman Empire popularised the tarboosh in the 19th century as part of military and administrative dress, especially during Sultan Mahmud II's reforms (early 1800s).

In an apparent violation of Islamic tradition, an Ottoman-era grave in Israel's Negev desert holds the remains of not one, but two people: a woman and a boy who might be her son.

Türkiye's expanding influence in West Asia and the Caucasus under Erdogan's Islamist-leaning foreign policy raises strategic questions.

Before Starbucks, coffee was considered an intoxicant in the Ottoman Empire. Sultan Murad IV thought it was a gateway drug to rebellion and banned it.

Egypt was then ruled by series of Ottoman governors (1517-1798) loyal to the sultan in Istanbul, but Mameluke princes were permitted to retain much of their power.

In this documentary, we explore how the Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers in World War I, forming a strategic alliance with the German Empire. We examine how Kaiser Wilhelm II sought to use ...

This is a nation which strangled its sultan when they didn’t like him or want him. There are quite a few Ottoman sultans who were assassinated, strangled, or whose deaths were made to look like ...

David Laut, CIO at Abound Financial, says investors should take comfort in the latest CPI inflation figure.

ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch The Chicago White Sox provided a photo of the pope wearing a White Sox hat. It happened during his weekly general audience.

We know, we know. It's hardly breaking news that flower crowns have fallen out of vogue, but it's been some time since a contender for the same easy-to-wear, slightly dreamy add-on had been put ...

The Sun is the brightest object in the solar system, and also the loudest. Nasa heliophysicist Dr C Alex Young explains just how loud the Sun is, and why we can't hear it.