The Ottoman Empire in the Middle East and the Balkans and the Habsburg empire in central Europe conspicuously provided protection for Jews and other minorities consistent with the most enlightened ...

The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest-lived empires in southeastern Europe and the Middle East. It can only really be compared to the Roman Empire , which it replaced when it ...

Supporters of the Ottoman sultan call him Ulu Hakan (the ... challenges of modernity with traditional Turkish identity. Middle East Eye delivers independent and unrivalled coverage and analysis ...

The Ottoman Empire expanded across three continents, conquering major territories in the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Europe. So why didn’t they ever conquer Italy? In this video, we ...

In this episode of our animated historical documentary series, we explore the causes behind the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during ... of the war in the Middle East.

The true story of Byzantium's fall reveals a legacy betrayed by the West, misunderstood by the Left, and weaponised by the ...

This would prevent the Ottoman Empire from giving support to Germany ... The British decided that they could not abandon the Middle East to the Ottomans and began to improve the infrastructure ...

An intense argument is raging over whether what has been happening in Gaza since October 2023 is an act of genocide. It is ...

A gathering of men at a simple coffeehouse in Palestine, Ottoman Syria, around 1900. Credit: Public domain. Source: :Kahvihuone.jpg Coffee- ...

This was made clear by Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu during a parliamentary discussion last week, in which he said that "a new Middle East ... history of the Ottoman Empire, which Davutoglu ...

In response, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz pointed out that another Middle East ruler with similar ideas did not succeed with such dreams. “Erdogan follows in the footsteps of Saddam ...

Lamenting that the Middle East’s borders were defined after World War I and the demise of the Ottoman Empire, Mr. Erdogan asserted that Aleppo, Damascus, Idlib, and Raqqa could have been “part ...