Ottoman Navy

Zeyrek Çinili Hammam, one of the masterpieces of Mimar Sinan in Istanbul's Fatih neighborhood, is returning to its original function after a comprehensive 13-year restoration process.

The hammam, with its cultural heritage brought back to life by The Marmara Group, will open its doors to its visitors on May 3 to offer a bathing experience in a historical structure.

Old-style single-masted boats are being built for tourism purposes at a historic dock in the Black Sea province of Bartın, where galleys and galleons were built for the Ottoman navy after the 1500s, for the first time in 50 years.

A local man who got stuck inside a historic cannon he entered for a photo was rescued by emergency teams, getting what he wants eventually in an unusual way: Lots of photos taken while he was in a cannon.

?Zeytinda???/?Mount of Olives? by Falih R?fk? Atay (Pozitif Yay?nc?l?k, 192 pages, 10 TL)

In a speech last year, then prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an slammed Turkey?s opposition parties for denigrating the Middle East as a ?swamp.?