but this makes Erdogan’s Turkey a new Ottoman Empire as much as Germany’s preeminence in the EU makes it into a new Kaiserreich. If there are problems with Erdogan, and I don’t dispute that ...

Turkey has carved out a new role for itself as the successor to the Ottoman Empire. Whether neo-Ottomanism represents a viable framework for regional stability or a new form of imperialism remains ...

A train station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital, an essential link between Europe and the Arabian Peninsula during the Ottoman Empire and then a national transit hub ...

Professor Alice Roberts takes a train ride that covers 600 years of the Ottoman Empire. Her mission is to learn about this vast empire that started with a dream in the 14th century. Alice Roberts ...

Rageh Omaar traces the history of the Ottoman empire. A super-power of a million square miles, it matched the glories of Ancient Rome and collapsed less than a hundred years ago ...

NARA--Artifacts recovered from an Ottoman Empire frigate that sank off Japan’s Kii Peninsula in the Meiji Era (1868-1912) were at risk of disintegrating until researchers hit upon the idea of ...

Inside a factory at an industrial park, on the outskirts of Gaziantep in south-eastern Turkey, beautiful things are being ...

The Centre for Ottoman Studies is an interdisciplinary centre dedicated to the study of the Ottoman Empire and its legacies in post-Ottoman societies.

“Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the North Carolina Museum ... of Saudi Arabia and a former curator of Islamic art at New York’s Metropolitan Museum—the show comprises nearly 200 ...