During a restoration work at the Dolmabahce Palace in the Turkish metropolis Istanbul on Wednesday, newspaper fragments from 1917 were found inside the wall plaster. The newspapers were used as ...
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In November 1914, acting under pressure from his German ally, the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed V, who doubled as Caliph of all Muslims, issued a holy commandment directed at Muslims worldwide: they were ...
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History has a way of surprising us – even 100 years later. In author Eugene Rogan’s forthcoming book, The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, Rogan writes about a small and ...
IN 1915 Pope Benedict XV wrote to Mehmed V, the Sultan of the Ottoman empire, saying that he could hear “the echo of the groans of an entire people…subjected to unspeakable sufferings”. When the two ...
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