Sultans in the Ottoman Empire loved to eat. In the 15th century, Topkapi Palace boasted a kitchen staff of 100 people, a number that grew to 500 during the 16th-century reign of Suleiman the ...

The words below it are written in Turkish, and proclaim Suleiman's role as Sultan, ruler specifically of the Ottoman Empire, and sovereign of all its subjects - Muslim, Jewish or Christian.

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

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The Ottoman Empire arose from the ashes of Byzantine ... More than a dozen independent countries emerged from territories the Ottoman sultans once ruled.

AT PENPOINTThe visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Pakistan was not just friendly and fraternal, but it ...

Modern-day Turkey is accepted as the birthplace of the Ottoman Empire and visiting the many ... to conjure up images of the era of the Ottoman sultans’ reign. There are plenty of palaces and ...

which rang the death knell on the Caliphate and the Ottoman Empire, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Turkish president, is trying to recast a Sultan-like influence across the region,” Hannah Lucinda ...

Since the 15th century, Greece had been ruled by the Ottoman Empire, whose troops had converted the Acropolis into a garrison, and whose sultan, Mehmed II, had turned the Parthenon itself into a ...

The Eyüp Sultan Mosque is situated in the Eyüp district ... The city was the capital of the Ottoman Empire after Bursa but before Istanbul and as such, is packed with sites of historical ...