Vartkes Serengülyan, elected to the Parliament with a hundred thousand votes from Erzurum, emphasized that enlisting everyone without discrimination based on class was essential. He highlighted that ...

On October 20, Turkey’s Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç condemned what he called a “genocide” in Gaza, vowing that those ...

Joseph V. Micallef is a best-selling military history and world affairs author, and keynote speaker. In 1994, an aspiring Turkish politician named Recep Tayyip Erdogan leveraged his fame as a player ...

Charged due to social media posts, nine people have been referred to court in Kocaeli. Ottoman Military Band was playing in the vehicle that took them. Prosecutor has referred all of them to court ...

It was October 26, 1912 when freedom bells rang in Thessaloniki, as the Greek army liberated the city from Ottoman rule.

The Cedid Atlas Tercümesi, or New Atlas, was published in Istanbul in 1803 by the Ottoman Military Engineering School Press — the first atlas to be printed in the Muslim world. The atlas, intended to ...

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) in a Friday speech on the House floor compared proposals to have the Pentagon pay for gender transition to the Ottoman practice of castrating slaves serving in the empire’s ...

London: Vallentine Mitchell / Portland, Or.: International Specialized Book Services, 2013. Pp. xviii, 284. Illus., gloss., notes, biblio., index. $84.95. ISBN ...

THE Ottoman Empire is in vogue in Turkish politics and popular culture. “Magnificent Century”, a 2011 soap opera based on the life of Sultan Süleyman, ran for five seasons and amassed an audience ...

In one framing device, Ottoman history IS military history, or rather, the history of the Ottomans is the history of their military class. The basic division of Ottoman society into reaya and askeri ...