The New Year's first blockbuster exhibition, "The Turks", opens at The Royal Academy today. Featuring treasures never previously allowed outside the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, it will be a real eye-opener for anyone who thinks Turkey's main attractions are its beach resorts.Gregson, Jonathan...
‘Two other incidents in April added to Yishuv anxiety. In Jaffa, citrus-owner. Samuel Tolkowsky complained that Government permission for the reappearance of Falastin, which had been closed down by the Turks for incitement to race-hatred in April 1914, could only be a source of discouragement ...
19, 1941 [Public] After they learned about the "Struma," the British contacted the Turks to ask them to prevent this ship from passing through the Bosporus. However, the Turkish refused this due to the Montreux Convention, the international treaty of 1936 which legitimated the Black Sea ...
The early-English enslaved Irish Catholics; the Moors enslaved the Spanish before the Spanish enslaved the Moors and Cubans; the Ottomans enslaved the Balkans and Turks; the Egyptians enslaved the Jews; the Greeks and Romans enslaved seemingly everyone. While people think of slavery a...
In the Ottoman diet the central role of butter and animal fat seems to point to the nomadic roots of the Turks (coming from Central Asia) and less to the Mediterranean inclination toward olive oil, which was typical for the classical and Byzantine world. This is not to say that the Ottoma...