But that isn’t really the nature of secularism in Turkey. Until the early 20th century, so intimate was the connection between political and religious power that when Ataturk founded the ...

Topkapi Palace Museum (Topkapi Sarayi Müzesi) is ranked #8 out of 19 things to do in Istanbul. See pictures and our review of Topkapi Palace Museum (Topkapi Sarayi Müzesi).

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Topkapi Palace, the seat of the Ottoman sultans for almost 400 years, ... Turkey. AP correspondents Suzan Fraser in Ankara and Vanessa Gera in Tripoli, Libya, contributed to this report.