Joseph V. Micallef is a best-selling military history and world affairs author, and keynote speaker. In 1994, an aspiring Turkish politician named Recep Tayyip Erdogan leveraged his fame as a player ...

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) in a Friday speech on the House floor compared proposals to have the Pentagon pay for gender transition to the Ottoman practice of castrating slaves serving in the empire’s ...

ISTANBUL, TURKEY—Hurriyet Daily News reports that the remains of 30 Ottoman soldiers have been unearthed in a suburb of Istanbul. Rahmi Asal of the Istanbul Archaeology Museums Directorate said the ...

In 1462, the prince of a small area called Wallachia went to war with arguably the most powerful military force on the planet at the time, led by one of the greatest military minds of the time. The ...

Vienna was surrounded. An invading Ottoman-led army, estimated at 150,000 troops, stood outside of her gates. Having refused the customary demand to surrender, made by Kara Mustafa, the Grand Vizier, ...

Vartkes Serengülyan, elected to the Parliament with a hundred thousand votes from Erzurum, emphasized that enlisting everyone without discrimination based on class was essential. He highlighted that ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at History Today. In the twilight of the Ottoman Empire, 100 years ago, a restless Turkish prisoner of war ...

Beta Film has released a swashbuckling, pulse-pounding trailer for “Rise of the Raven,” its epic 10-part drama series based on the bloody 15th-century battle that changed the course of Europe. The ...

In his latest book, historian Emad Abu Ghazi examines the Ottoman occupation, in a bid to settle the debate between the labels 'occupation' and 'conquest' 1517 Al-Ehtelal Al-Othmani Le Misr (“The ...