Ottomans

'Antakya has fallen six times': Türkiye antiques seller vows to stay put

"God willing, we'll rebuild it," says Mehmet Serkan Sincan, who displays his wares on street, plays music for passersby and makes call to prayer five times, in the historic city destroyed several times in more than 2,000 years.

Why are tensions escalating between France and Algeria?

President Macron finds it difficult to grasp why Algerians are still anti-French when France is yet to apologise to them for killing and abusing their forefathers during the French colonialism.

From Hittites to Vikings: The hidden history of Turkey's Bathonea unearthed

Bathonea, on the shores of a lagoon in Istanbul, was once a bustling port city, home to Hittites, Mycenaeans, Alasians, Byzantians, Vikings and the Ottomans. TRT World talks to Kocaeli University’s Sengul Aydingun, the head of the excavation team.

Was the Srebrenica genocide aimed at the wider Muslim presence in Europe?

Some analysts see a connection between today's Islamophobia and the toxic Serbian nationalism of the 1990s, which sought to erase the Muslim Bosnian presence in the Balkans.

In Pictures: Holy Relics of Prophet Mohammed exhibited in Topkapi Palace

Muslim Caliphs almost always wanted to keep the holy relics of Prophet Mohammed close to where they ruled. In the end, the Ottoman rulers brought them to Istanbul, where the Turkish government safeguards them in the historic Topkapi Palace.

Bosnia's Mostar town finds peak in centuries-old bridge diving

In the ancient Mostar town, jumping or diving from the 24-metre-high bridge built by Ottomans across Neretva river is a test of courage. Organisers say the competition was 452nd.

Muslims call on Athens to finish building the city's mosque

Athens is one of the cradles of civilisation. But the Greek city has still not provided a place of worship for one of the world's most practised religions.