Abdülhamid II’s Tribal School was a strategic soft-power bet that knit far-flung peoples together and paved the groundwork ...

In his new book, The Big Payback, the British comedian Sir Lenny Henry has called on the UK Government to pay £18tn in reparations for slavery to black British people.

Historian Ugur Pece revisits the turbulent end of Ottoman rule in Crete, reframing it as an intimate civil conflict with ...

In Trabzon, northeastern Türkiye, the birthplace of Suleiman the Magnificent, the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman ...

Find the answer for Ottoman Empire leaders from the people who brought you the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.

TasteAtlas has unveiled its global line-up of top chicken dishes. It's no surprise that Butter Chicken is No 5.

The Sunni world may appear to be a solid bloc, but deep historical, ethnic and political faultlines continue to divide Arabs, Turks and other Muslim communities ...

A New York Public Library exhibition features nearly two centuries of cultural, social and political artifacts on Middle ...

AB: Some Turkish scholars argue that the Jihad call wasn't targeting the non-Muslim citizens of the Ottoman Empire. But what ...

A favorite of 16th-century sultans, the syrup-soaked and oft-reinvented sweet is still beloved by Turkish diners today.

Ottoman-era cat doors have been restored and made fully operational for feline creatures to move freely through the Karaaglar Quarters of the Harem at Istanbul’s Topkabi palace in Turkey. The ...

The Ottoman Empire ruled vast territories for centuries, but by the 19th and early 20th centuries, internal corruption, ...