On June 9, 1826, the forces of Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II, the sultan of Ottoman administrative reforms and aka Sultan Adli, deployed in the horse field in Istanbul where Janissaries forces that ...

On May 19th, the streets of New York will be strewn in red and white for the Turkish American Association Federation’s 31st Turkish Day March and Festival. On May 19th, the streets of New York will be ...

Goodwin, the author of a well-received history of the Ottoman Empire, Lords of the Horizons (1999), makes a welcome shift to fiction with this impressive first of a new mystery series set in the ...

ISTANBUL--Turkey's march to join the European Union increasingly resembles the Ottoman's fabled janissary band, the mehter platoon: moving two steps forward, then one back. Ankara and Brussels struck ...

THE heated speculation and feverish commentary over who would become Pakistan’s next army chief after Gen Kayani’s retirement would not have been out of place in a closely fought election. This keen, ...

ISTANBUL - After Topkapı Palace’s weapons section closed its doors in December for a renovation, daily Hürriyet reported Monday that there would also be some high-tech additions such as holographic ...

Born from conquest, trained from childhood, and loyal only to the Sultan—the Janissaries were the backbone of the Ottoman war machine. Dozens denied oath of allegiance at Indianapolis naturalization ...

Taken as boys and trained for war, the Janissaries became the most feared infantry in the world - the backbone of the Ottoman war machine. The Deadly Wrong Turn That Doomed Singapore Airlines Flight ...

Jul (Reuters) - Just a century after Austria repelled Ottoman troops from the gates of Vienna a young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, newly arrived in the city, wrote an opera about the feared former foe set ...