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The bodies of Ottoman Turks that were found during an excavation 10 months ago in a Greek village were finally laid to rest with Islamic rituals after months.

In February, a Turkish-Muslim cemetery from the Ottoman era was discovered during the construction of a gymnasium in the garden of a school in Simandra village in northern Greece.

The last surviving head of the House of Osman, the royal dynasty that once ruled the Ottoman Empire- which ruled vast territories for six centuries, before it was replaced by the Turkish Republic- has died at age 88 in Syria.

Prince Dündar Abdulkerim Osmanoğlu lost his life at a hospital on Jan. 18 in the Syrian capital Damascus, where he had been receiving treatment.

A book looking into the earliest-known phonograph recordings of folk music in what were once Ottoman lands is out now for Turkish language readers.

A book looking into the earliest-known phonograph recordings of folk music in what were once Ottoman lands is out now for Turkish language readers.

The story of Hellenic Textile Mill starts in the 19th century, in the cosmopolitan Ottoman Empire, and ends at a building complex on Pireos Street that has been home for the last few decades to the Athens School of Fine Arts, where the Sikiaridis and the Ambazoglou families, bonded by marriage, founded one of the country's most important textile mills.

It's not every day Turkish comedy fans get to laugh at a descendant of the sultan. "I've got this fancy title but don't have the riches," said Naz Osmanoğlu, a British comedian and member of Turkey's former ruling family, at his first-ever gig in Turkey last week. 

Although the history of finance inspection and examination bodies within the state apparatus can be traced back to the early days of the Ottoman Empire, the emergence of a modern, professional and self-supporting bureaucratic unit tasked to oversee virtually all revenues, properties and expenses of the vast Ottoman lands came in the last quarter of the 19th century.

Pax Ottomanica was based on the might of the Ottoman army. For most of the time during the Empire?s rule, the tribes in eastern Anatolia, or Arab sheiks of the southern deserts, knew that if they challenged Istanbul, men with guns would come knocking on their door. So once the Army was not strong enough to guarantee peace, all hell broke loose. That was World War I.

Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC) in Istanbul is hosting the exhibition "Camera Ottomana: Photography and Modernity in the Ottoman Empire, 1840 - 1914" between April 21 and August 19. 

“[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, cross-grained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.”

- Aristophanes, The Knights