Pashas

A reporter asks: "Visa requirements are lifted reciprocally with the Huns' state. Would you consider going there for holidays?"

The citizens' answers:

"Well that will be good; in fact we emigrated together with them from Central Asia."

"I am from the Black Sea. I usually would rather go to the Black Sea."

"No, I go to my uncle's place on the seaside in France."

If Turkey has reinforced its troops in Mosul with the secret intention of gaining land, then it means it has launched a very dangerous venture. 

If there is no such thing and it has only strengthened its units that are already there for training and intelligence in agreement with coalition countries, then it has done a correct and legitimate act. 

A Russian battleship passed through the Dardanelles en route to the Mediterranean, minutes after Turkish F-16s shot down a Russian fighter jet due to an airspace violation. 

The ruins of a Turkish bath, which was constructed in 1555 for Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, have been unearthed in the Sapanca district of western Sakarya province and taken under protection. 

Exactly 101 years ago, a series of breath-taking developments in European and Turkish seas put the Ottoman Empire into a war that would destroy it. Recently revealed documents correct some misconceptions about how the Turks entered World War I "Enver [Pasha] had wanted to stand back and let the Great Powers destroy one another.

The personal belongings of Ottoman soldier and politician Enver Pa?a, which were provided by his family and put up for auction by Istanbul Müzayede on April 5, were bought by the Turkish Ministry of National Defense.

A special collection of 122 pieces, including the personal belongings of Ottoman soldier and politician Enver Pa?a, who was a highly powerful figure in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, will be put on auction April 5 in Istanbul. 

The Turkish Historical Society has released historical photographs from World War I to mark the 100th anniversary of the war, which show Ottoman troops fighting in seven different battlefields including Gallipoli, Iraq and Yemen.    

Coal was discovered in the Ottoman Empire relatively lately, but administrators soon started extracting it in a move toward industrialization Sometime before 1829, Sultan Mahmud II (r. 1808-1839) sent forth a decree throughout all the lands of the Ottoman Empire offering to award anyone who could discover coal.