During the 1918-1922 occupation of Istanbul by the British, French, Italian and Greek armies who occupied the city after World War I after the Ottomans had sided with the losing German-led ...

While the Old World magic in many parts of the city has been plowed under by modern affluence, today’s Istanbul is every bit as rich and rewarding as it was back then. For thousands of years ...

ISTANBUL — Turkey has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul ... quake with experts citing the city’s proximity to fault lines.