Dr. Gene Callahan noticed that Niall Ferguson’s dire warning of the rise of a neo-Ottoman Empire is not based on any real evidence. Ferguson wrote the column in the wake of the AKP’s significant ...

Holly Williams samples some just-delicious desserts in Turkey: On the shores of the Bosphorus, the strait of water that divides Europe on one bank from Asia on the ...

Nevertheless, the suffering of the Assyrians is largely forgotten internationally and not recognized as genocide, which embitters the descendants of the victims. This ancient civilized nation forced ...

Bursa is only a few hours from Istanbul, with a unique culture and renowned artistic traditions of its own.

For all the failings of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, they did a better job than we have done in the Middle East. They had ruled over the most ethnically and regionally divided part of the world for ...

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

A new book titled The Genocide of the Christian Populations in the Ottoman Empire and Its Aftermath (1908--1923), edited by ...

Our interview with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, published earlier this week on Global Spin, dwelled mostly on the growing shadow cast by the charismatic premier across the face of ...

The Last Days of the Ottoman empire: 1918-1922. By Ryan Gingeras. Allen Lane; 368 pages; $47.95 and £30 As it turned out, more than six centuries of Ottoman rule ended with a whimper rather than a ...

Since last summer, Ozgen Felek has passed many illuminating hours in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s reading room poring over Yale’s collections of Ottoman Turkish manuscripts, which are ...

When Ateþ Temeltaþ was a boy in Istanbul, his father, Abdurrahman, seemed prescient about the effect that Westernization, and an eventual relocation to the West, might have on his ambitious offspring.