Long before domes, synagogues, and ruin bars, there were springs. Budapest sits on more than 120 natural thermal sources.

Tens of thousands of Hungarians poured into the streets along the Danube River, singing folk songs and waving flags ...

A group of people native to Anatolia, the Karamanlides, are believed by many to be Turkish speaking Greeks. They used a ...

Gallipoli was a hastily launched military campaign over a maritime choke point – and has parallels with the Strait of Hormuz.

By Garo Gumusyan (Notes from the book Istanbul Islands, published in 1962 – quite old, but when it comes to history, does it ...

Syrian Kurds ran their own autonomous region for 12 years after breaking away from the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

One reason the U.S. Navy was created in the late 1700s and early 1800s was to counter north African states’ attacks on shipping, during conflicts that became known as the Barbary wars. That situation ...

This was the Piri Reis map, a world chart compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. While the map is famous for its early depiction of the Americas, a new wave of academic ...

The Ottoman Empire is often overshadowed in World War I, but its collapse was one of the war’s biggest stories. This video ...

When the UNESCO World Heritage Committee meets in July 2026 to review potential candidates, Türkiye is almost certain to gain ...

The Turkish Police Organization, whose foundations were laid in 1845 with the “Police Regulation,” continues its fight against crime and criminals ...

The counterfactual exercise of imagining a Middle East without Israel highlights a fundamental issue: the tendency to explain ...