The story of Mehmed Emin Pasha, born a Jew as Isaak Eduard Schnitzer and baptized as Eduard Carl Oscar Theodor Schnitzer, is a multiculturalist’s delight. This Jewish doctor who turned Christian, then ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. On a plateau overlooking Dogubeyazit, the last Turkish town before you hit ...

A Libyan historian credited the Ottoman Empire for demarcating and unifying Libya's geographical borders. In an interview with Anadolu Agency, Mahmoud al-Deek said the history of the Ottomans and ...

In 1910, Mehmed Talaat, a leader of the Young Turks movement and future grand vizier (essentially, the prime minister) of the Ottoman Empire, began planning the extermination of the empire’s Armenians ...

Having risen up the ranks following the coup d'etat in the Ottoman Empire in 1913, Ismail Enver Pasha became Minister of War during World War I and formed one-third of the triumvirate leadership known ...

Emre Solak is a political scientist who graduated from California State University in Long Beach. He has been a journalist and writer for 32 years. A few days back, I read comments of an Armenian ...

Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II Karim, who is an ethnic Assyrian, lights a candle at an Assyrian genocide centennial memorial. (AINA) -- The Assyrian Genocide was a premeditated and ...

The First World War was an unprecedented catastrophe that killed millions and set the continent of Europe on the path to further calamity two decades later. But it didn’t come out of nowhere. With the ...