In the Ottoman era, “Turk” essentially meant “Muslim.” A Catholic Albanian, a Greek Orthodox, or a Jew who converted to Islam ...

But there the similarity ends. Ataturk was, at most, an agnostic who felt that Islam, as practiced in the Ottoman Empire, was an enemy of progress; Erdogan is a devout Muslim who often waxes ...

The unloved reptile and the slithery behavior often ascribed to it could be a fitting metaphor for Turkey lately — starting with President Erdogan’s rolling out the welcome mat for a Hamas delegation ...

Erdogan could order Islamist militias to deploy along the Israeli border with Syria, creating a highly combustible reality ...

Turkish troops are occupying parts of Syria and Cyprus as Erdogan continues to seek influence and leadership in the lands of the former Ottoman Empire. And to the retrospective, expansionist ...

With 38 people dead in four days and 26 in intensive care after drinking bootleg liquor in Istanbul, the politically charged ...

According to The Jerusalem Post, the Nagel Committee claims that Turkey, under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is trying to revive the power once held by the Ottoman Empire. This move is ...

Their differing ambitions—the revival of the Ottoman Empire versus the restoration of the Umayyad Caliphate—place them on a potential collision course. Whether this tension will escalate into ...

Erdogan’s goal is the resurrection of the Ottoman empire and acquiescence to Turkish hegemony in the Muslim Middle East. The Muslim Brotherhood is the ideological bedrock of political Islamism and ...

The statement was carefully crafted to say the deportations, massacres and death marches took place in the Ottoman Empire ... Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is yet to address the ...

Turkish troops are occupying parts of Syria and Cyprus as Erdogan continues to seek influence and leadership in the lands of the former Ottoman Empire. And to the retrospective, expansionist ...

Erdogan, who has said nothing about the wave ... a historian and author of a recent book on alcohol in Turkey since the Ottoman Empire. Following several arrests this week over the latest ...