Getting to know İstanbul: Fatih, the Mosque of the Conqueror

A 37-year-old man who attempted suicide today by jumping off Istanbul's 105-meter-high Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge over the Bosphorus has miraculously survived. O.E. suddenly stopped his truck on the bridge while driving toward the Anatolian side and ...

The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge between Europe and Asia, in Istanbul, Turkey. photo by Erdağ Göknar A proud, nearly life-long Istanbul resident, celebrated Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk was charged in 2005 with insulting Turkishness under Article ...

Fatih Kanunnamesi (Fatih's code of laws) is the first written legal text of the Ottoman state. Due to some of its provisions it continues to be debated over by historians. A new book Atam Dedem Kanunu (My father, my grandfather law), edited by ...

150 documents belonging to the era of Mehmed the Conqueror, on which there are few documents in official archives, have been collected in a book. World Bulletin/News Desk Representations of 150 documents belonging of the era of Mehmed the Conqueror ...

Some of the students who are taking part in this year's International Turkish Olympiads pose for photos while one of them speaks to a reporter at Atatürk Olympic Stadium in İstanbul on Wednesday. (Photo: Cihan) 22 May 2013 /TODAY'S ZAMAN, ...

Sunday 0 0 0 0 o.gurbuz@todayszaman.com Throughout history, the essential human struggle has always found its basis in the clash between tyranny and justice. Essential elements of society, such as positive and negative rights, belief, enterprise and ...

By: Matthew E. Bunson ------------------------------ On August 14, 1480, a massacre was perpetrated on a hill just outside the city of Otranto, in southern Italy. Eight hundred of the city's male inhabitants were taken to a place called the Hill of ...

Break the yoke of ignorance. Change the syllabus of 'Madrassas' in Pukhtoonkhawa bring in Avicenna, Averroes, Farabi, Kindi, and Marii, and debauched reason of Ibn Tamiyyah The Arabs revived Greek philosophy and it was through Kindi, Farabi, ...

The Eskishehir province of Turkey will host an international symposium on May 7-8 that aims to include the Molla Nasreddin jokes to the UNESCO List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity and will bring together representatives of more than ...