Bit by bit, from the eastern Mediterranean to the sands of Aleppo, President Erdogan seems intent on reconstituting some newfangled version of the ...

I joined Intrepid Travel‘s three-day Taste of Istanbul tour with a friend. Here’s my honest, candid review of the tour. This ...

Inspired by an Ottoman Empire love story, the spa is home to a cold igloo with fresh snow and a restaurant.

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Turkey could pose a greater threat to Israel than Iran in Syria if it supports a hostile “Sunni Islamist” force in Damascus, ...

Hagia Sophia remains the symbolic center of Greek Orthodoxy even centuries after its fall to the Ottomans and conversion to a ...

Is Israel’s triumphalism over its land grab in Syria realistic? The hard reality is—Israel now has Al-Qaeda as a next-door ...

The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World Author: Roger Crowley Reviewed by: ...

Aydın Aydınoğlu, whose family migrated from Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, to the Samatya neighborhood in Istanbul's Fatih ...