Janissaries

A portrait of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, known as Fatih Sultan Mehmet in Turkish, will be put up for auction in London on June 25. 

Thought to be drawn by Italian painter Gentile Bellini in 1480, it is expected to fetch $500,000-$740,000 and will be sold at the world-famous Christie's auction house.

Russia's Red Army Choir shot a video at home playing notes from the Ottoman military band Mehter in support of Turkey's fight with the novel coronavirus.

The video was directed by the choir's art director, Gen. Gennadiy Sachenyuk.

The video was shared by the Red Army Choir's social media accounts with a note: "With love and respect to the heroic Turkish nation."

Members of the Turkish Armed Forces' Ottoman military band, called "Mehter" in Turkish, performed traditional ceremonial music in New York's iconic Times Square on June 8.

The walls of Vienna trembled on 27th of September, 1529, as strange music echoed close by. The sound of hundreds of drums stopped the heartbeats of the Austrian defenders. Also, the loud horn-like noise of the zurna pierced their souls, bringing fear of the unknown; of a distant menace coming from afar – The Janissaries.

Members of Turkey's far-right Great Unity Party (BBP) have staged a sequel to their 2014 anti-New Year's celebration skit wherein Santa Claus becomes a Muslim after learning there is "no room for barbarism" in Islam. 

An exhibition on Ottoman scholar and intellectual Matrakç? Nasuh opened in Belgrade on Sept. 15.

Promoted by the Turkish president's office, the exhibit features items covering the 16th century figure's broad range of achievements in mathematics, history and artistic miniatures.

The Turkish Armed Forces have formed a new ceremonial brigade, dressed as Ottoman soldiers, to attend events marking the 562nd anniversary of the Turks? conquest of Istanbul, upon the instructions of President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.

Continuing the new trend of cosplay started at Turkey's new presidential palace where President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an resides, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu and Deputy Prime Minister Yalç?n Akdo?an were welcomed by policemen dressed in Ottoman-era costumes on April 10 in Ankara.

A deputy from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) recently declared that ?the Ottoman Empire has returned,? but the government has since faced its own ?janissary rebellion," when public servants dressed as Ottoman janissary soldiers protested in front of a local AKP headquarters.

Amid increasing anger at official and popular levels at the supposed Christian aspects of New Year's celebrations in Turkey, members of the far-right Great Unity Party (BBP) symbolically ran Santa out of town Dec. 31 in the northwestern province of Bolu.