At Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul sends a renewed message of solidarity to Palestine – through art, memory and echoes of an ...

Throughout its centuries-long existence, the Hagia Sophia has been a place of worship for many different religions and ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

Third episode, tonight on TV, Monday, April 28, in prime time on Rai1, with Rai Cultura and 'Ulisse, il piacere della scoperta', dedicated to great figures of the past and the history of unique ...

A rare collection of artworks, including Gentile Bellini's renowned portrait of Sultan Mehmed II, is currently on exhibit in ...

Turkey has begun a new phase in restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on preserving the monument’s historic domes from the threat of earthquakes.

H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, the “Mother of the Nation”, Chairwoman of the General Women's Union, President of the ...

The art inside the building ... 1918-1922 occupation of Istanbul by the British, French, Italian and Greek armies who occupied the city after World War I after the Ottomans had sided with the ...

By Akin Nazli in Belgrade An unnamed investor has spent £1,016,000 ($1.35mn) acquiring orientalist painter Osman Hamdi Bey’s ...

When Western tourists who are visiting Istanbul, Turkey ... Then there is the Blue Mosque, an Ottoman-era temple just a short walk from the famous landmark, followed by many other similar structures.

Bridge between cultures Born into an elite Ottoman family ... In 1882, he founded Istanbul’s Academy of Fine Arts, becoming its first director and shaping a new generation of Turkish artists.