Built as Byzantium, and then renamed Constantinople, Istanbul officially received its present name on this day in 1930.

Population surveillance. The carrying of identification while traveling. Add to that the public presence of diverse religions ...

Population surveillance. The carrying of identification while traveling. Add to that the public presence of diverse religions and it sounds like 2025 ...

During the First Balkan War, the armies of the Balkan League—Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, and Montenegro—scored victory after victory against the ailing Ottoman Empire, until Turkish troops were ...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls World War I Gallipoli campaign one of 'the brightest chapters' in Turkish history - Anadolu Ajansı ...

An Osaka Metropolitan University historian has found that the Ottoman Empire’s seeming religious tolerance stemmed from ...