On The Lion House: The Coming of a King, by Christopher De Bellaigue. Although Suleiman is the book’s touchstone, he is not really its subject. Instead, the “persons of the drama” are presented in ...

Soar over the Süleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, the crowning architectural achievement of the legendary imperial ...

How archaeologists trying to locate the final resting place of Suleiman the Magnificent uncovered the remains of a crucial outpost of the Ottoman Empire A red sandstone block props open the door to ...

In this short "Astăzi în trecut" clip, I talk about what happened on 30 September 1520, when Suleiman the Magnificent ...

One hundred years ago, a village priest added a white marble plaque to St Maria Church’s facade out in a field in southern Hungary. Not fluent in Arabic or Hungarian, I can’t read it, but a friend ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sultan Suleyman restaurant chef Murat Erturk. (Credit: TONY CALDWELL) My job, like Ottawa, is nothing if not diverse. And in that ...

The Lion House. By Christopher de Bellaigue. Vintage; 304 pages; £20. To be published in America by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in November; $28 NOT FOR the first or last time in history, the master of ...

An indictment has been prepared against comedian Tuba Ulu following a joke about Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent made during a stand-up performance. The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s ...

Soar over the Süleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, the crowning architectural achievement of the legendary imperial architect Mimar Sinan and a towering tribute to Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.