A new bill introduced in the Turkish parliament recently calls for the renaming the Turkish crossing to the Armenian border ...

In 1448, with Ottoman help, Vlad III, then 16 years old, expelled Vladislav II from Walachia and ascended the throne. He lasted only two months as voivode before the Hungarians reinstated Vladislav.

The Last Days of the Ottoman empire: 1918-1922. By Ryan Gingeras. Allen Lane; 368 pages; $47.95 and £30. A s it turned out, more than six centuries of Ottoman rule ended with a whimper rather ...

A Georgian archivist has shared previously unseen film footage with RFE/RL of peace talks that took place in the final year of World War I in the Georgian port city of Batumi between the Ottoman ...