Israeli peace activists called on Türkiye on Sunday to build bridges between Palestinians and Israelis and advance a ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

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 ...

The Ottoman dynasty, particularly Mehmed II ... However, a century later, sultan Suleiman I had them plastered over. It’s thanks to the creation of the Turkish Republic created by Atatürk ...

Sultan Suleiman himself is said to have carried Gül Baba’s coffin ... The tomb’s symbolic coffin, Photo: Mayer Jácint Gül Baba’s monastery appears in Ottoman tax records starting in 1559. His ...

Sultan Suleiman himself is said to have carried Gül Baba’s coffin ... The tomb’s symbolic coffin, Photo: Mayer Jácint Gül Baba’s monastery appears in Ottoman tax records starting in 1559. His ...

So, what’s so special about Hagia Sophia? Well, it was the largest cathedral in the world for a good nine centuries before Ottoman Sultan Mehmet the Conquerer captured it in 1453 and transformed ...