Sultan Mehmet

The Istanbul Municipality has brought the medallion depicting portraits of Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II made by Italian artist Costanza de Ferrara in 1481 from the U.K. to the country.

The municipality earlier purchased the medallion for 38,000 pounds at an auction in London.

Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has purchased a medallion depicting portraits of Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II, known as Mehmet the Conqueror, for 38,000 pounds at an auction in London, the U.K.

Within the scope of ongoing excavation works at the Edirne New Palace (Saray-ı Cedide-i Amire), which hosted significant Ottoman sultans during the rise of the Ottoman Empire, underground parts of the palace will be detected using ground-penetrating radar (GPR) technique.

Istanbul decorated in blue lights for autism awareness

'The Black Eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire: Networks of Power in the Court of the Sultan' by George Junne (I.B. Tauris, 336 pages, £64)

The General Directorate of Highways has announced they will increase the fines assessed to heavy vehicles crossing the Fatih Sultan Mehmet (FSM) Bridge on Istanbul's Bosporus from 92 to 500 Turkish Liras.
 
The crossings currently cost less than what the drivers are supposed to pay if they take the newly opened third bridge.

A passenger car loaded with a bomb mechanism but no bombs, allegedly planned to be used in a terror attack similar to the recent Ankara suicide bombing, was seized by police at Bo?aziçi University late on Feb. 26. 

The construction of a controversial prayer room inside Istanbul?s Rumeli Fortress has been completed amid a long-running dispute between Turkish architects and art historians.

The Bo?azkesen Fetih prayer room is scheduled to open to worshippers in August after a construction process which cost about 1.5 million Turkish Liras.

A university in Ankara has opened a controversial poster competition to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1915 incidents from an unexpected perspective - “to remember the genocide committed by Armenians against Turks.”

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has instructed Turkey’s educational institutions to adopt a policy of highlighting the contribution of Islam to global science and arts, including the discovery of the American continent by Muslim sailors some 300 years before Columbus.