Turkey’s major cities are quiet today after a dramatic coup attempt by a faction within the Turkish military. There is still so much we do not yet know and may not know for quite some time. Had the ...

In the grand old city of Istanbul, there is a lot that’s newly built and stridently flashy. In the last decade or so entire swaths of steep, winding streets have been dug up and replaced with ...

On the morning of February 22, over 500 Turkish soldiers drove into Syria to extract the remains of Suleyman Shah—grandfather of Osman I, the founder of the Ottoman Empire—from a small mausoleum on ...

'The Russo-Turkish Battle at the Damietta Castle on 1770', 1770-1772. Hackert, Jacob Philipp (1737-1807). Found in the collection of the State Central Navy Museum, St. Petersburg. 'The Russo-Turkish ...

There was a time when the Turkish government famously insisted that Kurds simply didn’t exist; they, like everyone else in Turkey, were Turks. Until Turkish society abandoned this nationalist myth and ...

A long history of mutual enmity is exacerbating tension between Turkey and Russia. Leaders in both countries are apt to view their current hostilities through the prism of a bitterly contested ...