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How American naval architects transformed Ottoman navy in 1830s Image

How American naval architects transformed Ottoman navy in 1830s

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US naval architects Eckford and Rhodes built Ottoman Empire's first modern steamship fleet in the 1830s as earliest US-Türkiye defense partnership

Ancient city of Sardis, Lydian Tumuli of Bin Tepe in Türkiye added to UNESCO World Heritage List

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Number of sites from Türkiye on UNESCO World Heritage List reaches 22

Ancient city of Sardis, Lydian Tumuli of Bin Tepe in Türkiye added to UNESCO World Heritage List Image

Türkiye Culture Route Festival brings Picasso to Van as 9-day celebration kicks off

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Running from July 12 to 20, the Van Culture Route Festival will feature more than 300 events, including concerts, workshops, performances

Türkiye Culture Route Festival brings Picasso to Van as 9-day celebration kicks off Image

Apollon Temple in Didim opens for night visits under new museum project

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Apollon Temple in Didim launches night visits with custom lighting and mythic stories, reviving its ancient role as a center of prophecy in Türkiye

Apollon Temple in Didim opens for night visits under new museum project Image

Local voices at heart of Türkiye’s Culture Route Festival, says deputy minister Image

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Local voices at heart of Türkiye’s Culture Route Festival, says deputy minister

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Türkiye returns 6 Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets to Iraq in heritage repatriation Image

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Türkiye returns 6 Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets to Iraq in heritage repatriation

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Ancient Phrygian tomb illegally converted into cafe in Türkiye’s Afyonkarahisar Image

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Ancient Phrygian tomb illegally converted into cafe in Türkiye’s Afyonkarahisar

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Qatar’s Turquoise Mosque showcases Turkish craftsmanship and Islamic art Image

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Qatar’s Turquoise Mosque showcases Turkish craftsmanship and Islamic art

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Traditional meets contemporary at Turkic World Women and Fashion Festival in Aktau Image

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Traditional meets contemporary at Turkic World Women and Fashion Festival in Aktau

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Turkish actor Ahmet Kural wins best actor award in Italy for role in TRT’s 'Gassal' Image

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Turkish actor Ahmet Kural wins best actor award in Italy for role in TRT’s 'Gassal'

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Reviving Turkish myths on stage in 'Legends of Istanbul' Image

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Reviving Turkish myths on stage in 'Legends of Istanbul'

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Türkiye's Culture Minister explores 2,000-year-old underwater cargo ship off Antalya Image

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Türkiye's Culture Minister explores 2,000-year-old underwater cargo ship off Antalya

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DNA study at Catalhoyuk reveals women’s central role in early Anatolian farming Image

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DNA study at Catalhoyuk reveals women’s central role in early Anatolian farming

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Ancient Hadrianopolis introduces AI-powered QR tour in Türkiye Image

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Ancient Hadrianopolis introduces AI-powered QR tour in Türkiye

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Türkiye's cannabis journey through centuries and challenges it faces Image

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Türkiye's cannabis journey through centuries and challenges it faces

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Archaeology, DNA reveal how early farmers transformed Anatolia without mass migration Image

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Archaeology, DNA reveal how early farmers transformed Anatolia without mass migration

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Meet and greet tickets for Jennifer Lopez’s Istanbul concert starting price $2.5K Image

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Meet and greet tickets for Jennifer Lopez’s Istanbul concert starting price $2.5K

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Mevlana’s message echoes in Rome─Turkish calligraphy, sufism meet Renaissance Image

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Mevlana’s message echoes in Rome─Turkish calligraphy, sufism meet Renaissance

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Europe’s oldest boomerang? Polish mammoth ivory weapon stuns archaeologists Image

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Europe’s oldest boomerang? Polish mammoth ivory weapon stuns archaeologists

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Senegalese artists learn flow of 'ebru' at Turkish workshop in Dakar Image

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Senegalese artists learn flow of 'ebru' at Turkish workshop in Dakar

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Did ancient humans cross one of earth’s strongest ocean currents? Image

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Did ancient humans cross one of earth’s strongest ocean currents?

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11,000 years of avocado domestication traced to Honduran highlands, study says Image

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11,000 years of avocado domestication traced to Honduran highlands, study says

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Archaeologists discover nearly 5,000-year-old food prep zone in southern Türkiye Image

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Archaeologists discover nearly 5,000-year-old food prep zone in southern Türkiye

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Fifteen lost churches unearthed in Türkiye’s Karadag region Image

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Fifteen lost churches unearthed in Türkiye’s Karadag region

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Visionary film director James Cameron’s art to go on display in Istanbul for 6 months Image

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Visionary film director James Cameron’s art to go on display in Istanbul for 6 months

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How Nazi Germany weaponised archaeology to justify war and occupation Image

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How Nazi Germany weaponised archaeology to justify war and occupation

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Vast marble agora discovered in Türkiye’s ancient city of Magnesia Image

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Vast marble agora discovered in Türkiye’s ancient city of Magnesia

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A look back at 2,500 years of assassination politics in Iran Image

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A look back at 2,500 years of assassination politics in Iran

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What If America had been Ottoman? Forgotten proposal from Columbus to Sultan Bayezid II Image

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What If America had been Ottoman? Forgotten proposal from Columbus to Sultan Bayezid II

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How archaeologists are challenging Eurocentric labels in Middle Nile’s ancient past Image

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How archaeologists are challenging Eurocentric labels in Middle Nile’s ancient past

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The mysterious death of Sultan Mehmed II: Natural causes or assassination? Image

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The mysterious death of Sultan Mehmed II: Natural causes or assassination?

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Phoenician ritual bathing practices uncovered at ancient Tel Dan temple Image

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Phoenician ritual bathing practices uncovered at ancient Tel Dan temple

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Ancient library emerges in Türkiye's Stratonikeia, revealing architectural grandeur Image

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Ancient library emerges in Türkiye's Stratonikeia, revealing architectural grandeur

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New study reveals how prehistoric people extracted animal teeth for ornaments Image

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New study reveals how prehistoric people extracted animal teeth for ornaments

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Ancient city of Tralleis to open for tourism after decades of excavations in Western Türkiye Image

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Ancient city of Tralleis to open for tourism after decades of excavations in Western Türkiye

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Imperial Russian Ballet brings 'Swan Lake' to Izmir stage Image

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Imperial Russian Ballet brings 'Swan Lake' to Izmir stage

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Turkish B-2 that never was: What happened to THK-13? Image

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Turkish B-2 that never was: What happened to THK-13?

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Why do Türkiye-Azerbaijan call themselves ‘one nation, two states’? Image

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Why do Türkiye-Azerbaijan call themselves ‘one nation, two states’?

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An Ottoman Sultan in Egypt, 400 years later Image

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An Ottoman Sultan in Egypt, 400 years later

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Seasonal women workers unearth history at 12,000-year-old site in southeastern Türkiye Image

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Seasonal women workers unearth history at 12,000-year-old site in southeastern Türkiye

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Underwater excavations resume at Hellenistic shipwreck in Marmaris' Serce Harbor Image

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Underwater excavations resume at Hellenistic shipwreck in Marmaris' Serce Harbor

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Rare artifacts linked to Rumi undergo restoration in Türkiye Image

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Rare artifacts linked to Rumi undergo restoration in Türkiye

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Topkapi Palace opens its gates to nighttime visitors through summer Image

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Topkapi Palace opens its gates to nighttime visitors through summer

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Whirling dervishes set to perform at Rome’s Colosseum for first time Image

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Whirling dervishes set to perform at Rome’s Colosseum for first time

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Balikesir’s half-century fair draws 40,000 visitors with food, festivity, local charm Image

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Balikesir’s half-century fair draws 40,000 visitors with food, festivity, local charm

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European massacres of Jews and Ottoman Empire's role in their survival Image

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European massacres of Jews and Ottoman Empire's role in their survival

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Live-action remakes: A necessary evolution or creative redundancy? Image

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Live-action remakes: A necessary evolution or creative redundancy?

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Istanbul Coffee Festival to return to Kadikoy Sept. 11–14 with tastings, workshops, and music Image

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Istanbul Coffee Festival to return to Kadikoy Sept. 11–14 with tastings, workshops, and music

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AI unveils Bible's hidden authors Image

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AI unveils Bible's hidden authors

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Ancient mosaics uncovered in Türkiye’s Olympos shed new light on early Christian history Image

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Ancient mosaics uncovered in Türkiye’s Olympos shed new light on early Christian history

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Snow in the east, fires in the west: Türkiye faces climate extremes Image

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Snow in the east, fires in the west: Türkiye faces climate extremes

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Algerian engineer’s death rekindles memory of Muslim flight pioneer Ibn Firnas Image

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Algerian engineer’s death rekindles memory of Muslim flight pioneer Ibn Firnas

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German film score composer Hans Zimmer deletes his pro-Palestine Instagram post Image

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German film score composer Hans Zimmer deletes his pro-Palestine Instagram post

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Turkish racer Deniz Oncu returns to the track for Moto2 Dutch Grand Prix Image

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Turkish racer Deniz Oncu returns to the track for Moto2 Dutch Grand Prix

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