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This church near Edirnekapı at Istanbul is famous for its mosaics and frescoes. It was built by Maria Dukaina, mother – in – law of Byzantine Emperor Alexius Komnenos,...

From time immemorial, people, from gut feelings, we instantly become wary of strangers with greedy or mean eyes. We know from experience, that effusive praises should be taken with...

There are many reasons why I do my best to avoid making technology predictions. Here’s one: So much of what’s interesting about this industry is so very unpredictable. For...

Popular music is to a large extent produced by the consumer generation, or even if not later came on to take on many of those characteristics, and takes its...

This work, the broadest Dictionary of Turkish music thus far created, is the result of a multi-year project  by an expert team , which was funded and made available...

The tradition of folklore—folktales, jokes, legends, and the like—in the Turkish language is very rich. Perhaps the most popular figure in the tradition is the aforementioned Nasreddin (known as Nasreddin Hoca, or...

An Ottoman garden party, with poet, guest, and winebearer; from the 16th-century Dîvân-ı Bâkî Ottoman Divan poetry was a highly ritualized and symbolic art form. From the Persian poetry that largely inspired it, it...

Turkey has strategic importance because it is a secular democracy with a majority Muslim population, says a former member of the US administration, adding that any regression in democracy...

Turkey is intent on forming an international platform to resolve the crisis in Syria, Foreign MinisterAhmet Davutoğlu said Feb. 9 while reiterating that Ankara could not remain indifferent to a massacre in...

NATO said Friday it is considering an Israeli offer to contribute a warship to the alliance's naval patrol in the Mediterranean, despite Turkey's opposition. NATO spokeswoman Carmen Romero said...