Ottoman Turks

Eleven of 32 applicants claiming to be descendants of Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II (1842-1918) might be telling the truth, a preliminary expert report has revealed, possibly opening the way for the applicants to demand the sultan’s heritage including several palaces and squares in Istanbul, as well as oil basins in Mosul and Kirkuk.

Eleven of 32 applicants claiming to be descendants of Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II might be telling the truth, a preliminary expert report has revealed, possibly opening the way for the applicants to demand the sultan’s heritage, which reportedly includes several palaces and squares in Istanbul, as well as oil basins in Mosul and Kirkuk.

The Last Battle Of the King historical reenactment event will take place on November 8 in the Asparuhov park in Bulgaria's coast city of Varna.

The end of the Ottoman Empire might have ushered in the birth of the republic, but the disappearance of the former is nothing to be commemorated, according to historian Orhan Koroğlu.