Islamic’ and ‘State’ — put together evoke alarm rather than optimism. However, the Albanian proposal gives more hope than ...

For what may be the oldest known coffee brewing method, you'll have to go all the way back to the 16th-century Ottoman Empire ...

Next up is a full emersion with “Music, Love and Mysticism in the Ottoman World,” a 75-minute concert led by Joseph Alpar at ...

On the anniversary of Atatürk’s death on Sunday, President Erdoğan hailed the legacy of the republic’s founder as the unity ...

Kurdish leaders on Thursday congratulated the 240th anniversary of the founding of Sulaimani city, the Kurdistan Region’s ...

Turkey on Saturday marked the 86th anniversary of the death of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic, with a ...

It's a city inhabited for 11,000 years and has seen empires come and go, including the Greeks, Romans and Ottomans.

A castle in Romania survived multiple empires, and its history involves a dark past, a legend of forbidden love and an heir ...

However, it was not an easy ride and by 1543 Sultan Murad 1V of the Ottoman Empire considered coffee suspect and a capital offence. Still, by the end of the century Constantinople boasted of an ...

Anyone who knows the Budapest of today knows what a European city and country looks like when enthralled by Chinese ...