Fatih Sultan Mehmed Han Mehmed
Turkey marks 567th anniversary of conquest of Istanbul
Turkey on May 29 marked the Ottoman conquest of Istanbul on its 567th anniversary with a series of events.
Sultan Mehmet II conquered the city from where the Byzantines ruled the Eastern Roman Empire for more than 1,000 years.
The conquest transformed the city, once the heart of the Byzantine realm, into the capital of the new Ottoman Empire.