A son was born to Yakup, a converted Muslim Sipahi, and his Greek wife in the late 15th century in the village of Palaiokipos on Lesbos. This bicultural child, named Khizr, grew up with three brothers ...

Türkiye's first lady Emine Erdoğan visited the Yunus Emre Institute (YEE) in Jakarta, Indonesia. Upon her arrival, she was ...

Small entities might once again need to relearn how to hedge between great powers. One forgotten highborn woman from history provides some ancient realist lessons.

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" Lost Alphabet ,” the award-winning artist Ahmet Gunestekin’s most ambitious exhibition to date, is a cry against forced ...

The author of literary classics such as Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades, Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837), is ...

This real-life clash of the titans was once used as a morale booster for Ottoman troops and now draws visitors from all over ...

The crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane near Aktau on December 25, 2024 was a serious test for Russian-Azerbaijani ...

The Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque tend to be the first ... The Ottoman-era mosque was designed by Mimar Sinan for the Grand Vizier Rüstem Paşa, whose wife was Mihrimah Sultan, one of the ...

the Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), has accepted the report and officially declared Friday, January 31, 2025, as the first day of ...