Ottoman Empire

At Gallipoli battlefields, travelers remember fallen Anzacs

Travelers from Australia and New Zealand joined Turkish and other nations' dignitaries at the former World War I battlefields at Gallipoli for a solemn service at dawn on April 25 to remember troops killed during an unsuccessful British-led attack that aimed to take the Ottoman Empire out of the war.

Turkey’s Pragmatic Policy in the Balkans has its Limits

Then September brought a flurry of meetings: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu travelled to Serbia to open a Turkish consulate in the city of Novi Pazar, part of the southwestern region of Sandzak, straddling both Serbia and Montenegro and mainly populated by Bosniak Muslims; Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic visited Erdogan in Istanbul; and Erdogan met Croatian President Zoran Milanov

The Two Faces of Orban’s Hungary: Christian and Neo-Ottoman

What is less talked about, however, is what came after the fall of Hungary's great medieval kings. Following the catastrophic Battle of Mohacs in 1526, the medieval kingdom of Hungary was subject to nearly two centuries of partition and external rule, with the eastern half of the kingdom coming under the rule of the Muslim Ottoman Turks of Constantinople.

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