Thanks to politics and the passage of time, grand monuments of the 1,000-year Byzantine Empire are easy to miss in the modern metropolis. Tourists take photographs in the Byzantine-era Chora Church, ...

The Mini Turkey Park (Miniaturk), Istanbul's first miniature park, attracts the attention of thousands of tourists from across the world by displaying all periods and locations of Anatolia and ...

Sara Tendulkar loves to travel, and her Instagram photos are proof. The celebrity recently shared a throwback snippet of her trip to Istanbul. Earlier this year, Sara went on a girl's trip with her ...

Turkey's president has signed a decree to formally turn the Hagia Sophia into a mosque - a move which threatens to upset Christians around the world. The monument in Istanbul has been a disputed ...

An extensive culture and heritage restoration campaign is revealing previously overlooked layers of the world's most visited city. For decades, the dome-topped turret of the Bulgur Palas in Istanbul's ...

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A Turkish court has again halted the transfer of Istanbul’s Basilica Cistern to the state foundations authority amid legal ...

ISTANBUL — Turkey has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on preserving the monument’s historic domes from the threat of ...

Muslim Friday prayer has been held in the Hagia Sophia for the first time in 86 years, marking the reconversion of the Istanbul landmark into a mosque. Middle East Eye delivers independent and ...