Their Ministry of Communication’s latest government music video, focusing on the Turkish military, presents Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan as heir to the Ottoman and Seljuk dynasties and ...

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan offered what the government said were unprecedented condolences on Wednesday to the grandchildren of Armenians killed in World War One by Ottoman soldiers. On ...

Pete Hegseth wanted US soldiers to be "killing machines" & stated that the Turkish president wanted to restore the Ottoman ...

and even converted the main Ottoman imperial mosque, the Hagia Sophia, into a museum. All these policies have been reversed under Erdogan, who has shifted the country toward conservatism.

And yet Mr Erdogan has continued - and gone further. At a rally this week, coinciding with a commemoration of the 1915 Gallipoli campaign - when Ottoman soldiers defeated British-led forces ...