Turkey’s major cities are quiet today after a dramatic coup attempt by a faction within the Turkish military. There is still so much we do not yet know and may not know for quite some time. Had the ...

'The Russo-Turkish Battle at the Damietta Castle on 1770', 1770-1772. Hackert, Jacob Philipp (1737-1807). Found in the collection of the State Central Navy Museum, St. Petersburg. History News Network ...

epa01851242 Protestors hold banners prior the Ergenekon trial in front of heavily guarded Silivri prison, Turkey on 07 September 2009. 86 people including retired army officers, the head of a small ...

Turkey's Islamist government under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is preparing to further indoctrinate Turkish schoolchildren in propaganda regarding Israel, Greeks, Armenians, Cyprus and other issues ...

“The causes of events,” wrote Cicero, in his Letters to Atticus, “are ever more interesting than the events themselves.” With reported accounts revealing the stunning details of the attempted coup in ...

The attempted military coup Friday in Turkey isn’t the first the country has seen: There have been several dating back to 1960. The first coup staged in Turkey came in 1960, when the military ...