Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman empire expanded from a small territory near Constantinople to capture the remnant of the Byzantine empire in the late thirteenth century, reviving many of its institutions a...
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Turkey–Russia Relations
In 1453, when the Ottoman Turkish sultan Mehmet (Muhammad) II (1432–1481) conquered Byzantium (Constantinople), the historic capital of the Eastern Roman empire, ...
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The Middle East (also known as the "Near East" by Europeans) is the area of Southwest Asia. The Balkan states (areas near Greece) were once considered to be part of the Ottoman Empire but have since ...
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Fifty-three Nobel laureates are calling on Turkey and Armenia to open their border and resolve their differences over the mass killings of Armenians by Turks in the early 20th century.In a letter r...
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Immigrant groups on Friday opened the first formal Islamic prayer site to operate in Athens since rule by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire ended more than 170 years ago.Plans by Greece's government ...
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Washington (dpa) - Pressured by the White House and Ankara, US
legislators were starting to back off their support for a
congressional measure that would declare the deaths ...
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Washington (dpa) - US President George W Bush urged Turkey on
Wednesday to refrain from sending troops into Iraq to go after
Kurdish separatist rebels responsible for recent...
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Athens (dpa) - Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis renewed
Greek calls Monday for the return of the Parthenon or Elgin Marbles
to Athens during his tour of the new Acropo...
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A parliamentary commission approved a proposal Thursday allowing Turkey to block Web sites that are deemed insulting to the founder of modern Turkey, weeks after a Turkish court temporarily barred ...
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A parliamentary commission approved a proposal Thursday allowing Turkey to block Web sites that are deemed insulting to the founder of modern Turkey, weeks after a Turkish court temporarily barred ...
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Pristina (dpa) - The UN administration of Serbia's southern
province of Kosovo on Wednesday banned the coming of a so-called
"volunteer guard" of Serbian nationalists to cel...
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Ankara (dpa) - Twelve Turkish soldiers were killed and many
injured early Sunday morning in an attack by rebels from the Kurdish
Workers' Party (PKK), the Anadolu news agenc...
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Ottoman Empire
Ottomans
Nobel laureates seek Turk-Armenian peace
