Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday formally reconverted Istanbul's sixth-century iconic Hagia Sophia into a mosque and declared it open to Muslim worship, hours after a high court ...

At the Istanbul Archaeological Museums, which opened near the Topkapi Palace Museum in 1869, you'll find more than a million antiquities displayed throughout three buildings: the Archaeological Museum ...

ANKARA, Turkey — The Turkish government formally converted a former Byzantine church into a mosque Friday, a move that came a month after it drew praise from the faithful and international opposition ...

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Cypriot delegation head and vice-president of the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe, Nicos Tornaritis, called for Hagia Sophia to be returned to museum status during a meeting of the ...

On a cobbled street in Cukurcuma, a district on Istanbul’s European side known for its antiques shops, the story penned by Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk in his bestselling novel “The Museum of Innocence” ...

Ramazan Bayrakoğlu, “Sleeping Man” (2010) (photo by Ozan Çakmak) (all images courtesy Odunpazari Modern Museum) ESKİŞEHIR, Turkey — Turkey’s first purpose-built modern art museum has opened in a ...

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