ISTANBUL - Grand Vizier Ali Paşa is known to have called Ahmet Vefik Paşa a 'living library' and someone who would have made a good grand vizier under Sultan Süleyman. Ahmet Vefik Paşa is remembered ...

The largest cavalry charge in history broke the 1683 Siege of Vienna, effectively ending Ottoman expansion into Western ...

An 18th-century historical madrasah in Bosnia and Herzegovina will be restored to its original appearance by a project launched by Turkey's state-run aid agency. The Ottoman-era Vizier Ibrahim Pasha ...

THE ENEMY AT THE GATE: HABSBURGS, OTTOMANS AND THE BATTLE FOR EUROPE By Andrew Wheatcroft Basic Books, $27.50, 268 pages REVIEWED BY DAVID C. ACHESON There are two stories here worth telling and well ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On my last visit to Istanbul, while passing along the Golden Horn in bright autumnal light, I came across a ...

It is said that Süleyman the Magnificent was extremely angry at the outcome of the Malta campaign in 1565. Defeat was something he had never taken into consideration. He had not taken into account the ...