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Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

European-orientated Turkey. The caliphate and Sharia law of the Ottoman Empire were replaced by a Western legal. Previously, the two former states, the Ottoman Empire and the German Empire had ...

An ancient clay tablet found in central Turkey suggests that a little known rival ethnic group was closely involved in the establishment of the Hittite Empire more than 3,000 years ago ...

The Ottoman Empire arose in modern Turkey at the turn ... abolished the Ottoman sultans’ claim to the caliphate. Turkey became a secular nation-state, and the other former provinces went their ...