In the context of military technological developments in eastern Europe, the notion of an Ottoman decline needs to be called into question. In this essay Keith Krause's model for the spread of ...

Joseph V. Micallef is a best-selling military history and world affairs author, and keynote speaker. In 1994, an aspiring Turkish politician named Recep Tayyip Erdogan leveraged his fame as a player ...

Charged due to social media posts, nine people have been referred to court in Kocaeli. Ottoman Military Band was playing in the vehicle that took them. Prosecutor has referred all of them to court ...

Edward J. Erickson, Ottomans and Armenians: A Study in Counterinsurgency (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) It is rare that a military historical study simultaneously informs professional debate and ...

Vartkes Serengülyan, elected to the Parliament with a hundred thousand votes from Erzurum, emphasized that enlisting everyone without discrimination based on class was essential. He highlighted that ...

One of the greatest empires in history, the Ottomans reigned for more than 600 years before crumbling on the battlefields of World War I. The tughra (insignia) of the 16th-century Ottoman emperor ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at History Today. In the twilight of the Ottoman Empire, 100 years ago, a restless Turkish prisoner of war ...

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) in a Friday speech on the House floor compared proposals to have the Pentagon pay for gender transition to the Ottoman practice of castrating slaves serving in the empire’s ...

Modern Turkey was forged by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from the Ottoman Empire’s collapse. In this episode, Dr Mesut Uyar joins us to discuss Atatürk’s legacy of strategic leadership. Read the transcript ...