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

For more than a decade, Bashar Assad presided over a regime that brutally repressed dissent, fueled a devastating civil war and transformed Syria into a proxy battlefield for regional and global ...

A new book by the journalist Bartle Bull recounts 5,000 years of the country’s past, showing how long before colonial powers defined its borders, it was a place with a common history. By Marc Van De ...

Turkey’s present cannot be understood without reference to its quite recent origins. Russian czar Nicholas I is generally credited with coining the expression “the sick man of Europe,” which he used ...

Turkey, a country at the intersection of Europe and Asia, combines both ancient civilizations and the modern world in one location. It has been shaped by its historical legacy, geographical location, ...

The resonant sounds of The Newberry Consort filled the halls of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston and transported the audience across centuries of the Ottoman Empire on Sunday. The Newberry ...

It's April 24, 1915. Some 250 Armenian intellectuals are rounded up in Constantinople and imprisoned by Ottoman police. Known as “Red Sunday,” it is today a day of remembrance for a murderous ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Battle of Empires: 1914-1918 - Ottoman Empire In the Ottoman Empire campaign you will take part in the famous battle of Gallipoli on the Turkish army side ...

Douglas A. Howard stresses the crucial role of the Ottoman sultans and their extended household, discusses the evolution of the empire's fiscal model, and analyzes favorite works of Ottoman literature ...