Americans once associated spheres of influence with a cynical, volatile European past. Now Washington is resurrecting them.

The Armenian Genocide of 1915 is recognized throughout the civilized world, despite perpetrator Turkey’s and its allies’ ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

While Erdoğan consolidates power at home and prepares to project it abroad, he has set the stage for a clash with Israel.

By fomenting chaos in Egypt and using Islamists fleeing Israel’s war in Gaza as a means to overthrow the ruling junta there, ...

A researcher believes he has found hidden messages on a 3,300-year-old ancient Egyptian obelisk that is now in Paris.

Is Erdoğan, then, a neo-Ottomanist trying to revive the old empire ... savoir faire as their Ottoman predecessors, it would be easy to imagine Turkey dominating the greater Middle East today ...

The Byzantines—or more accurately the Eastern Roman Empire—ruled ... queens were afforded greater public visibility and participation in governance than their Ottoman counterparts, their ...

I’ll be talking about date seeds. They are used as a caffeine-free alternative to regular coffee, and they are made by ...