Ottoman Empire News
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When an earthquake toppled a school in eastern Turkey last year, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government opened a new one at the same site, with one difference.
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TC Ziraat Bankasi AS, the bank founded in 1863 during the Ottoman Empire, plans to sell Eurobonds for the first time in 23 years to finance lending at cheaper rates than the cost of deposits.
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President Barack Obama now confronts a changing Islamic world that’s far more tumultuous than the one he faced when he took office for his first term.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said his future should be decided by voters and denied that his nation is embroiled in a civil war.
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When is the burden of the gods lighter than air? Six stately young women stand like sentinels on a marble parapet atop the Athenian Acropolis. They are gazing at the Parthenon, the great temple of Athena that, even in its present ruin, is one of the marvels of the world.
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The president of France is getting ready to sign a bill making it a crime in his country to deny that a century ago, the Ottoman Empire committed genocide against Armenians. As President Nicolas Sarkozy’s own party proposed the legislation, we suspect that he will sign it. But it’s never too late to drop a bad idea.
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Like many of Asia’s antique cities, Istanbul is a palimpsest, continuously inscribed by new movements of people and ideas, even as older writings on its parchment remain faintly visible.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization praised Turkey’s restraint and pledged support as the country’s top general inspected newly deployed units after cross-border shelling by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.
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It’s now little more than a dusty patch of land in the modern suburb of Atasehir on the Asian side of Istanbul. Within three years, if all goes according to plan, high-rise office buildings will dominate the site, forming an upstart Wall Street on the Sea of Marmara: the Istanbul International Financial Center.
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Two elections took place in the Balkans on May 6, and when historians look back, I think they’ll see a tipping point: The day Serbia ceded to Greece its place as the region’s most troublesome country.
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