President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Muslim prayers would begin on July 24 at Hagia Sophia. Above, visitors inside the UNESCO World Heritage site. (AFP) Short Url https://arab.news/z5rb6 ‘My thoughts […]
Source: Independent The monument that served as the centre of Christianity for 900 years and as a mosque for 500, holds a strong symbolic importance for the nation Sebnem Arsu; […]
BY LEYLA YVONNE ERGIL EXPAT CORNER JUN 22, 2020 Vintage photograph shows the Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque in Istanbul on a foggy day. (iStock Photo) Here is the ultimate […]
by DAILY SABAH WITH AA ISTANBUL Politics Jun 11, 2020 Sultan Hortac Mosque, Thessaloniki, Greece. (DHA Photo) Ottoman monuments in Greece are being misused in a major blow to the […]
SOURCE: DAILY SABAH In Madrasah of Hagia Sophia, where Sultan Mehmed II performed the first Friday prayer after the conquest of Istanbul, which opened the doors of a new era, […]
Source: Daily Sabah President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan offered condolences to the Patriarch of Turkey’s Armenian community, as he highlighted determination to ensure that no citizen would be discriminated against based […]
Tuesday, February 25 2020 34th Ottoman sultan ruled empire for 33 years, and significantly improved education, literacy, and public works ISTANBUL (Rahnuma) Sultan Abdulhamid II, the 34th sultan of the […]
by Maxim Edwards Constanta, Romania – The Grand Mosque of Constanta in southeast Romania has a hulking minaret nearly 50 metres high overlooking the Black Sea. It was constructed as […]
Source: The National Catholic Register By Solène Tadié The Italian Capuchin who is said to have inspired the creation of the world-famous beverage was beatified by John Paul II in […]
Source: Voice of America When Boris Johnson became Britain’s prime minister, the Turkish village of Kalfat held a celebration in his honor. Johnson has studied members of his family over […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Published 24.07.2019 An Istanbul waterside mansion in which the grandfather of newly-elected British Prime Minister Boris Johnson once lived has been put on sale for 550 million […]
OZAN CEYHUN @ozanceyhun Published 24.07.2019 Boris Johnson became the new prime minister by receiving 92,153 votes in an election where members of his party participated via mail. His rival, Foreign […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Published 20.06.2019 Her perfect command of Turkish belies a lifetime spent in Argentina, but 85-year-old Raşel Kazes is no stranger to Bergama, a town that is better […]
SOURCE: DAILY SABAH A 700-year-old mosque has been restored in southern Turkey’s Antalya province after excavations unearthed the pieces of the structure dating back to the Anatolian beyliks’ rule in […]
With Topkapi Palace, the administrative and residential power centre of the house of Ottomans, the Turkish government has inherited many valuable holy relics including the Prophet Muhammad’s personal belongings. Source: […]
İHSAN AKTAŞ @ihsanaktas Published 07.06.2019 When the Age of Enlightenment began in the West, dark clouds moved in over Islamic countries. At first glance, the Enlightenment emerged as an internal […]
Source: Al Monitor By Pinar Tremblay Green parks, historical monuments and untold nooks and crannies give Istanbul the feeling of an open-air museum. The water fountains spread around the city […]
A barren war cemetery in Amara houses the dead from the allies’ most calamitous defeat in the First World War. It was a request from a canny grandmother in Lincolnshire that took […]
The decline of the nation-state in the Middle East Source: TRT World By Dr Yakoob Ahmed, who is a PhD graduate from SOAS, University of London. An Ottoman historian, he […]
İHSAN AKTAŞ @ihsanaktas Published January 25, 2019 Until the end of the Cold War, there had apparently been a critique of Western civilization. Although the controversy between the Western and […]
