Abdul Hamid II

The Last Emperor (Payitaht: Abdulhamid) -- a Turkish TV series about the life of Abdul Hamid II, the 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire -- has drawn a broad international audience, especially in the Middle East and the Balkans.

The exhibition "Yıldız Palace Photography Collection," which features the Ottoman State's political, social, cultural and economic relations with the world through the photography collection of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II, opened in France on May 29. 

Nilhan Osmanoğlu, the person who has gone extremely public nowadays, claims she is the fifth generation granddaughter of one of the last Ottoman sultans, Abdul Hamid II. She said in a public speech last week that she was fed up with the parliamentarian system. 

We've made the sultan worry, look what've done. 

The biggest problem for Turkey is that we have not yet been able to achieve the sociological and sentimental integration to the extent required by the definition of a "nation." For this reason, we become polarized very easily and very sharply. 

The Mediterranean Sea is synonymous to large scale population movements throughout the history of mankind. At one point in antiquity the ‘middle sea’, which is what its name means, was scattered with Greek colonies, reaching from Anatolia in the eastern part all the way to the west in Spain and France.

Asar-? Antika Art Gallery in Istanbul will hold its 19th auction on Nov. 29 at the Conrad Istanbul Hotel. 

The governor accused of inciting hatred toward Turkey’s Jewish community has offered an “apology” to the country’s Chief Rabbi, claiming that his proposal to turn a synagogue into a museum as a reprisal for Israel’s policies over Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque “had no connection” to the Turkish Jewish community.