Due to a unique set of circumstances at the beginning of the 16th century, a teenage monarch inherited much of Europe, ...

Participants at a pro-Palestinian rally over the weekend in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka were seen carrying portraits of Ottoman Caliph Sultan Abdul Hamid II as they protested Israel's ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth century, and with a history surrounded in myth, legend and controversy, it ...

But in 1453, when Ottoman sultan Mehmed II (a.k.a. Mehmed ... However, a century later, sultan Suleiman I had them plastered over. It’s thanks to the creation of the Turkish Republic created ...