T he Armenian genocide was the mass murder of up to one million Armenians during the First World War. Sometimes called the ...

The Last Days of the Ottoman empire: 1918-1922. By Ryan Gingeras. Allen Lane; 368 pages; $47.95 and £30. A s it turned out, more than six centuries of Ottoman rule ended with a whimper rather ...

A hundred years ago, the Ottoman Empire slipped into the mists of history. A mighty realm that had survived for centuries and straddled three continents had reached the end of the road, ceasing to ...

The Ottoman caliphate, whose nature was reinterpreted multiple times throughout the empire's history, was to survive for 412 years, from 1512 until 1924. Who was the last caliph?