Since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, Turkey has taken a clear stance against the Assad regime, supporting opposition and rebel forces. Following the fall of the Alawite regime and the rise of ...

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

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 ...

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Albania Thursday ... he tries to boost ties with a region once ruled by the Ottoman empire. Erdogan will inaugurate the Great Mosque of Tirana ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Haleva was the 35th person to hold the title of Hahambaşi, by which the chief rabbis of both the modern Turkish Republic and the Ottoman empire have ... Recep Tayyip Erdogan took power, Haleva ...