Lengthy, involved and meandering, this epic soap opera by veteran historical novelist Falconer (Feathered Serpent, etc.) is set in the court of the 16th-century Turkish sultan Süleyman and its harem ...

Tipu Sultan, the Tiger of Mysore, was defeated and killed by the British on May 4, 1799. By October of that same year, Samuel Fores, a British printer, had published a lurid caricature linked to the ...

Ottoman-era cat doors have been restored and made fully operational for feline creatures to move freely through the Karaaglar Quarters of the Harem at Istanbul’s Topkabi palace in Turkey. The ...

The wife of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday hailed the harem of the Ottoman sultans as "a school for preparing women for life". Emine Erdogan's comments come a day after the ...