At the start of the new year, on January 6, President Erdogan made clear his intention to streamline the production of the ...

After discovering the identity of his mother, a slave from the Caucasus, Carlo Vecce publishes the monumental 'Life of Leonardo' (Alfaguara), of 680 pages. "The goal is to recover his humanity beyond ...

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But the Sultan of Turkey, who makes a great deal of money through taxing the merchants who have to pass through his country on the current route, sends his best spy, Fatima, to wreck the trip.

Modern-day Turkey is accepted as the birthplace of the ... of the best ways to conjure up images of the era of the Ottoman sultans’ reign. There are plenty of palaces and pavilions dotted ...

Its a Staffordshire pottery figurine, featuring the trio - TURKEY, ENGLAND, FRANCE. The figures depicted are Napoleon 111 of France, Empress Eugenie and the Sultan of Turkey.