So rich is Istanbul in historic buildings of every stripe, especially Byzantine churches and colonnaded cisterns, Ottoman ...

Murat Palta makes a splash in the Turkish art world by imagining how a 16th-century Ottoman miniaturist would depict the ...

Hammams have a rich history dating back to the Roman and Byzantine periods, when public baths were a central element of daily ...

The "Armenian Smyrna/Izmir The Aegean Communities" volume was the outcome in a series of research topics explored in ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

This is the eleventh part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some ...

Apollonius is far from the only ancient scholar whose work was saved by the medieval Islamic tradition: “we generally recognize that we have Greek texts today because of the Arab ‘hold’ on these texts ...

Coffee must have been the secret weapon of Greek, Slav, and Albanian mercenary units, the stratioti, that fought together throughout Europe in the 15th to 18th centuries. The stratioti must have ...

Vakifli has faced many calamities over the years and they were compounded by the devastating earthquakes of 2023 ...

Two years on from a devastating earthquake that shattered Turkey's southern region, nearly half a million people remain in ...

Traditionally, hammams were communal bathing spaces in which people would go to relax, get clean and socialise, but as ...