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Turkey is a unique setting for seeing the histories of the three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. In few, if any other places, does the chronicle of Western belief from pagan times to the present appear so concretely and so fully. It was here that  Abraham... Continue Reading

The turning point in Turkey’s fortunes came in 1919 when Turkish forces successfully defended the Gallipoli peninsula against attack by the British and French armies. Out of that emerged the figure of the Turkish colonel Mustafa Kemal as a dynamic, tireless, charismatic... Continue Reading

One of the earliest and the most persistent themes that still appears in the history of the many peoples of Anatolia is their balancing between feuding with and tolerating each other. As a great world crossroads, the land has seen the struggles and the accomodations to each other... Continue Reading

Turkish arts derive from the early cultural milieus of Central Asia, from whence the Turkish tribes migrated beginning in the 8th century AD, and the Middle East particularly Anatolia, where those tribes settled. Since the 9th century the esthetic has also been strongly informed... Continue Reading