Erdogan’s ambitions in Syria go beyond fighting ISIS. Is he laying the foundation for a modern Ottoman Empire?

"Palestine" was a poor backwater of little significance; Jerusalem was an old, decrepit city that no one (except Jews) cared ...

To the Ottomans, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and Arabia were provinces of a much larger empire ... The archaeological remains described in this volume, spanning some five thousand years of civilization, ...

He sought to bypass the secular heritage of Ataturk and reinstate a caliphate like that of Ottoman times, which also ruled over Jerusalem. This is why he pushes to give scholarships to those who ...

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The Language Layers of Jerusalem Jerusalem’s street signs have long served as a battlegroundfor identity and political power, reflecting the city’s historical transformations, from the Ottoman period ...

The Coins from Ẓahal Square Tunnel, Jerusalem - המטבעות מכיכר צה"ל, ירושלים This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Balog P. 1964. The Coinage of the Mamlūk Sultans of Egypt and ...

In the 16th century the Ottoman Turks embarked on a 400-year reign, building Jerusalem's Old City walls which still enclose the city's major Christian, Jewish, and Muslim sites. At the end of ...

Jerusalem does not belong to Turkey. Aspirations to re-create a neo-Ottoman colonial empire are nothing more than a dystopian nightmare. Here is why. Opinion.