DEFENSE OF MEDINA – Lion of Desert Fahrettin Pasha İsmail Bilgin, who penned painful times for Turks during the World War I such as; Sarıkamış-White Grief and Canakkale Legend, writes in his new novel, Defense of Medina, about the lesser known front of the war: Hedjaz Front and the most important fort of that front; defense of Medina... Fahrettin Pasha, who had

The legendary story of never-ending empire

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A brilliant book to help the reader discover the Ottoman Empire…   In the Balkans: Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hungary, Rumania, Montenegro, Macedonia, Moldova, Ukraine, Croatia, Slovenia… In Africa: Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Sudan, Egypt, Eritrea… In the Mi

In his own unique style, İlber Ortaylı gives answers to the questions many of us have when trying to understand Turkish history, and its relationship to recent social and political history.   Journey to the Borders of History is a collection of interviews with Prof. Ortaylı, which were originally published in various prestigious magaz...

Dursun Gürlerk, one of the most well-known cultural historians in Turkey, provides us with fascinating insights into Turkish history. In this beautifully crafted study, Gurlek tells the reader about conversations at the Ottoman Palaces and old Istanbul houses, reveals how St. Hagia Sophia was saved from collapse, examines the foreign policies of Abdulhami...

A book that uncovers the secrets of the Ottoman past...   Mustafa Armağan, who garnered widespread critical recognition for his successive studies of the Ottomans, rescues history from fairy tales and presents the truth about Ottoman history with an array of original documents.   In his new book, Armağan analyzes...

'A decade in ottoman palace'

Memories of a Turkish Soldier from the Çanakkale-Galiçya-Palestine Fronts   A soldier recounts his experiences from the years that he spent on the most murderous and brutal fronts of World War I –Çanakkale 1915, Galiçya 1916, and Palestine 1917-18 – and the years spent in captivity, held by the British after the collapse ...

Münevver Ayaşlı is one of the last Ottomans to have witnessed first-hand the disappearance of decency, and of an aesthetic, a lifestyle, and a culture, while a new state was born out of the ashes of a glorious empire.                      ~ Beşir Ay...