Just a century after Austria repelled Ottoman troops from the gates of Vienna, a young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, newly arrived in the city, wrote an opera about the feared former foe that he set in a ...

A stringed instrument that once belonged to a woman in the harem of Sultan Abdulaziz has been bought by a 22-year-old Turkish music student. Emine Bostanci, who studies at Rotterdam Conservatory in ...

The Topkapi Palace Museum Harem Apartments are among the top tourist attractions at Topkapi Palace. For almost 400 years (1465-1856), Topkapi was used as the primary residence of the Ottoman Sultans, ...

The wife of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Emine, has praised the harem as an "educational establishment" during a speech. Her husband had also made controversial remarks on motherhood on ...