Discover how the Ottoman Empire expanded its influence into the Black Sea by seizing control of Crimea. This episode traces ...

The Battle of Navarino, one of the most important battles in Greece’s War of Independence, took place on October 20, 1827.

‘The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy’ and ‘The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire’ expand on histories too often dismissed as mere footnotes A century after its demise, the Ottoman Empire may seem like a ...

The Vatican declared Armenian Bishop Ignatius Maloyan, martyred in 1915, a saint and honored his courage and enduring faith.

The town was supposed to be a “safe area,” protected by U.N. peacekeepers, but Serb forces massacred 8,000 Muslim men and boys there. By Roger Cohen A new book by the journalist Bartle Bull recounts 5 ...

The visual culture of the late Ottoman Empire reflected widespread and dramatic reforms. However, while political and social developments in this period have received much attention, the interaction ...

Holly Williams samples some just-delicious desserts in Turkey: On the shores of the Bosphorus, the strait of water that divides Europe on one bank from Asia on the ...

Turkish delight The owner of an antique shop in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul sips a cup of Turkish coffee Coffee houses gave men somewhere to congregate other than in homes, mosques or markets, ...