Ottoman Sufi Center

Berlin’de Türk derneğine taşlı saldırı

Almanya’nın başkenti Berlin’de, Schöneberg semtindeki ‘Ottoman Sufi Center’ adlı bir Türk derneğine kimliği belirsiz kişiler tarafından saldırı düzenlendi.

Historian surveys Ottoman life through images of old

ISTANBUL - British historian Philip Mansel brings images of Istanbul's Ottoman splendor to life in his books. Now researching the Middle East's Levantine cities, Beirut, Alexandria and İzmir, he is interested in how these cities functioned where different people such as Muslims, Christians and Jews lived together despite periodic violence

A peace-instilling Ottoman yard returns: the Valide-i Atik Complex

ISTANBUL - The Valide-i Atik Complex is one of the last works of Mimar Sinan, the renowned chief architect of the Ottoman Empire during the period when it was at its height. Valide-i Atik means ’the old mother of a sultan’ and refers to one of the more famous - or, perhaps, infamous - mothers to ever inhabit the imperial harem, Nurbanu Sultan

New concepts lift Arab music of old

ISTANBUL - A group of Turkish classical virtuosos and dervishes take the sounds of Anatolia and Sufism to Lille this week in a unique performance under the auspices of Zither master and French-Swiss native Julien Jalal Eddine Weiss

Why Turkish cities are washed with blood every bayram?

If you live in Istanbul, or any other major Turkish city, and have toured around a bit during the recent Kurban Bayramı, or the Feast of Sacrifice, you might have seen some carnage. For hundreds of thousands of sheep have been slaughtered in the four days of the religious holiday and some of this bloodshed took place right on the streets or near the highways. Many in the Turkish media criticized these "uncivilized scenes," and, they were right to do so. The practice of slaughtering animals in public space indeed looks, and is, uncivilized.