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 ...

The notorious pirate Barbarossa, who eventually went on to be an Admiral in the Ottoman Navy, was surprisingly half Greek.

In 1876, Sultan Abdul Hamid II (1842-1918) rose to the Ottoman throne, who governed with iron hand for 33 years, up until 1909. He kept in fear and horror everyone, both his advocates and opponents, ...

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On 6 April 1453, the Siege of Constantinople began under the command of Mehmed II, an Ottoman sultan who was just 21 ... Bulgarians and Ottoman Turks, as well as mass fatalities from the Black ...

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

The Kurds of Syrian Kurdistan have the most promising democracy outside of Israel. Don't let it be destroyed. Opinion.

Participants at a pro-Palestinian rally over the weekend in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka were seen carrying portraits of Ottoman Caliph Sultan Abdul Hamid II as they protested Israel's ...