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 ...

With the death of Mehmed II in 1481, the Ottoman Empire was thrust into a ruthless succession crisis between his sons Bayezid and Cem Sultan. Ottoman tradition recognized every prince as a legitimate ...

The site of the house belonging to Osman I, also called Osman Ghazi, the founder of the Ottoman Empire, in Bilecik has been ...

In 1915, the Allies launched a daring campaign to seize the Dardanelles and knock the Ottoman Empire out of the Great War. What began as an overconfident naval assault quickly turned into a brutal ...

The country is still haunted by a long and fractured past ...

Within minutes, the post was deleted on X. The White House attributed the message to a staff error. Given the long history of ...

Scholars of international relations often compare the diplomatic structures of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Republic of Türkiye. However, a crucial difference between the two is frequently ...

Learn about the visionary leader who transformed the Ottoman Empire into the Republic of Turkey with sweeping reforms in law, education, and social structure.

Since 2014, Russia has promoted a nationalist and irredentist narrative portraying Crimea as “historically Russian land,” ...

This statement reflects a deeper strategic logic. Russia’s actions in 2025–2026 increasingly resemble a long-standing geopolitical ...

Persistent attacks on the Church leadership, and the threatened forcible or mandated removal of its leader, pose direct threats to all Armenians around the world who rely on the Church for spiritual ...

With the opening of a hub by Premier Inn within the former Snow Hill Police Station, we take a look at other hotels in converted prisons.