ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish soldiers launched an overnight raid into neighboring Syria, evacuating dozens of besieged troops guarding an Ottoman tomb and moving the crypt Sunday back to Turkey after ...

This is an exerpt from the book Assyrian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey and Adjacent Territories, by Anahit Khosroeva. Throughout the history of the world, namely the 20th century, there have been ...

For more than a decade, Bashar Assad presided over a regime that brutally repressed dissent, fueled a devastating civil war and transformed Syria into a proxy battlefield for regional and global ...

Thanks to school textbooks, Müteferrika is proudly remembered as the first Muslim printer. Yet this groundbreaking achievement was only one part of a far richer intellectual legacy that deserves ...

Turkey has opened the world's first underwater rail link between two continents, connecting Asia and Europe in a project envisioned by Ottoman sultans more than a century ago. Called the Marmaray, the ...

The world’s once greatest cathedral is now a mosque. On July 10, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ordered the conversion of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia back into a mosque after a ...

Two of the world's earliest color photographers separately documented ethnic Armenian inhabitants of Ottoman Turkey just before the religious minority was largely wiped out over a century ago. 1 This ...

A US television team is following the traces of Jews who settled in Turkey at the invitation of Sultan Bayezid II following the expulsion of Jews from Spain. The team of the Jewish Life Television ...

Some of the key arguments of modern Islamism were formed earlier than imagined, in the final years of the Ottoman polity From 1908 the trajectory of what we now call political Islam, or Islamism, can ...

Growing up in a military family, history professor Doug Howard did two tours of duty in Turkey, and he’ll be returning there this summer through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.