On the occasion of the 564th year of the conquest of İstanbul by the Ottoman Empire from the Byzantine Empire, a parade has been organized in the construction area of the third airport of İstanbul ...

The Byzantine Empire considered itself to be the caretaker of the Christian religion. The emperor was chosen by God and God had chosen the empire as the wheel to spread Christianity. Christianity was ...

Considering it took place some 500 years ago, the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453 feels like it happened only yesterday -- at least in Istanbul. In recent years, an Ottoman history magazine ...

On May 29, 1453, Ottoman forces, under the leadership of Mehmet II, concluded their long and bloody siege of Constantinople by storming the city and overtaking it. According to Crowley, who works in ...

People walk past an advertisement for "Conquest 1453" displayed in snow outside a cinema in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012. Turkey is on a roll these days, uplifted by economic growth and ...

Turkey on Sunday marked the 563rd anniversary of the Ottoman conquest of Istanbul with huge parties and a fireworks show in the former Byzantine imperial capital once known as Constantinople. Around a ...

This past Saturday, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan conquered Istanbul. The Turkish president, his entourage and large crowds came together for a "glorious" conquest (fetih) festival to celebrate the 562nd ...

After the conquest of Constantinople by Mehmet II in 1453, the great city on the Bosphorus would become host to grand mosques and one of the finest examples of Ottoman civil architecture, Topkapi ...

ISTANBULISTANBUL — Turkey is on a roll these days, uplifted by economic growth and regional diplomacy. Now comes a film to boost the feel-good mood, an epic about the 15th century fall of ...