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

A war hero even as the Ottoman Empire he served crumbled around him, Ataturk was instrumental in defeating an invading British army at Gallipoli. At the end of World War I, when the victorious ...

or Ataturk, as he’s widely remembered — had already dismantled the Ottoman sultanate in their fashioning of a new Turkish state out of the ashes of empire. The spiritual role of the Caliph was ...

Modern Turkey was forged by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from the Ottoman Empire’s collapse. In this episode, Dr Mesut Uyar joins us to discuss Atatürk’s legacy of strategic leadership. Read the transcript ...

Only one of Ataturk's siblings ... had been conquered by the Ottoman Empire. He was born to a Turkish family living in the Ottoman Vilâyet Selanik, which then was part of Ottoman Rumelia.

Albania will create a sovereign Muslim state in Tirana for the Bektashi religious order, along the lines of the Vatican in ...

If created, the enclave for the Islamic Sufi order would be one of the world's smallest states. Read more at straitstimes.com ...

Ataturk, who served as a general in the Ottoman Empire, is revered in Turkey as the founder and first president of the republic. Armenians and Greeks claim Ataturk was responsible for acts of ...

Modern-day Turkey is accepted as the birthplace of the Ottoman Empire and visiting the many palaces and royal residences still standing in Istanbul is one of the best ways to conjure up images of ...