In 1922, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the modern Turkish Republic, sent the last Ottoman sultan packing aboard a British warship. Two years later, Ataturk banned the caliphate ...

and also saw him groomed for a greater role in the empire by Sultan Abdulhamid II, the last Ottoman ruler who held any significant authority. Indeed, Abdulhamid was planning to instate Ali Haydar ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan watched the show from the Vahdettin Pavillion, the residence of the last Ottoman sultan. For Erdogan, 2023 has represented both a goal and a promise – that ...

23 at a hospital in Istanbul. He was the last surviving grandson of an Ottoman sultan and was regarded as the head of the royal family's living members. Mr. Osmanoglu would have become its sultan ...

Ottoman Sultan Resat welcoming Austria Emperor in his ... Ataturk welcoming the last king of Iran Reza Pahlavi and Adnan Menderes visiting Athens with his delegation in 1950s were reported to ...

When the Ottoman-Mamluk wars began, Sultan al-Ashraf Kansu al-Ghuri sought ... His helmet, now displayed in the museum, represents the last of its kind from the Mamluk era. "The Diyarbakır ...

Over the last two decades, Erdogan's imprint on almost all vital Turkish institutions has deepened. His critics have likened him to a modern-day Ottoman sultan. In winning the presidential run-off ...