In January 1915, Winston Churchill and Britain's War Council developed a plan to force the Dardanelles, capture Istanbul, and ...

Its padded top doubles as a comfortable seat.

Centuries before the Republic of Türkiye was founded, Ottoman political debates had already touched on the idea of a republic ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — A church bell sounds, the staccato thudding of mallet on plank summons monks to afternoon prayers, deep voices are raised in communal chant. And high in the great tower of ...

Turning the pages of a manuscript copy of the Maʿrifetnāme, an 18th-century encyclopedia authored by the Ottoman scholar and Sufi poet İbrāhīm Ḥaḳḳī Efendi, can lead readers to seventh heaven and the ...

The Last Days of the Ottoman empire: 1918-1922. By Ryan Gingeras. Allen Lane; 368 pages; $47.95 and £30 As it turned out, more than six centuries of Ottoman rule ended with a whimper rather than a ...

The Bybyme Curved Lounge Chair and Ottoman Set is on sale for just $240. Typically, the set will set you back $440, but a limited-time deal cuts the price by 45%. Compared to other lounge chair and ...

For more than a decade, Bashar Assad presided over a regime that brutally repressed dissent, fueled a devastating civil war and transformed Syria into a proxy battlefield for regional and global ...

Welcome to DIY Diary. Each entry covers a new home improvement project. Here, J.R. Coffin and George Coffin, partners in business and life, take on an abandoned ottoman. When J.R. Coffin, architect ...