Jews in Turkey are taking an active part in celebrations marking the 500th anniversary of the conquest of Constantinople by the Turks. Chief Rabbi Raphael Saban issued a message lauding the Turkish ...

Down a narrow side street, in a district of Istanbul on the Golden Horn well off the beaten tourist track, sit the relatively modest headquarters of the "first among equals" of the world's estimated ...

On May 29, 1453, the ancient Roman city of Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks. Many historians consider the ...

[ISTANBUL] Turkey on Sunday marked the 563rd anniversary of the Ottoman conquest of Istanbul with huge parties and a fireworks show in the former Byzantine imperial capital once known as ...

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I says Turkey is not 'a hostile environment' for Christians — Ed JONES Muslim-majority Turkey, which is hosting Pope Leo XIV on his first overseas ...

Considering it took place some 500 years ago, the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453 feels like it happened only yesterday -- at least in Istanbul. In recent years, an Ottoman history magazine ...

ISTANBUL - Muslim-majority Turkey, which is hosting Pope Leo XIV on his first overseas trip as pontiff, is not "a hostile environment" for Christians, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople told ...