Thanks to a popular Turkish television series beamed around the world, this once-forgotten town is experiencing a tourism boom.
Saudi Arabia's revision of its history curriculum is politically motivated and a swipe at present-day Turkey.
The British prime minister has aggressively used all means to reach to the top governing post, a trait that mirrors his Turkish great-grandfather's political approach.
Known for their decorations and symbols, Ottoman cemeteries are still a mystery for many.
In light of the recent US-sponsored Bahrain conference, a prominent Lebanese leader urged pro-Israel Gulf leadership to take lessons from the Ottoman rulers who refused to surrender Palestine to Zionists for material gains.
Five hundred years after his death, Leonardo da Vinci’s interaction with the Ottomans is memorialised in his designs for a bridge and his overtures to the Ottoman Sultans of the time.
The Circassians, who are predominantly Muslim, suffered greatly under the Russian Empire and were banished from their homelands in 1864.
The portrait of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, thought to have been made by one of the followers of the Italian painter Gentile Bellini, was sold for 5.3 million pounds ($6.9 million). The sale price was well above the reserve.
One of the terrorists who killed at least 50 people at two mosques had several Islamophobic names and dates of war against Muslims inscribed on his gun, while Turks were shown as one of the main targets.
Many Ottoman mosques, baths and historical complexes in the southern Bulgarian city Plovdiv are in need of restoration.
Attempts at building nation-states after the end of World War I have done little more than raise the foundations for a vicious cycle of conflicts in former Ottoman Empire territories.
Here are 9 things you need to know about the Bosphorus Strait which connects the continents of Europe and Asia right in the heart of Istanbul.
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