Alwaght- When we open the history books, we find them full of accounts of wars between Iran and the Ottoman Empire, a huge empire that stretched from Asia to North Africa and Europe. The the sick man of Europe, a label given to the Ottoman Empire by the Europeans, gradually just like other dynasties and empires headed to its decline. It was finally ...

Turkeys prime minister has comparedPresident Recep Tayyip Erdoganto the Ottoman sultanwho conquered Constantinople -modern-day Istanbul -centuries ago. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim made the comparisonduring the opening of a newbridge over the BosphorusStrait between Europe and Asia in Istanbul on Friday. Erdogan has made cars pass beneath sea ...

Tehran, April 20, The Iran Project - Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has already dreamed of reviving the neo-Ottoman empire, but no one took it seriously untilhe officially welcomed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas along with 16 warriors each representing one of the 16 empires of Turkish history. It is said that Erdogan is schemingto ...

Alwaght- Following the inappropriate and irrational fragmentation of the Ottoman Empire in the wake of the World War I, the flames of religious, ethnic and sectarian disputes have joined forces with nationalism to engulf the whole West Asia region. The rich oil reserves and the regions strategic significance have added to the problem, driving such ...

Alwaght-For decades, Turkish foreign policy was highly dependent on the West and was defined in line with strategies of the West. Practically, Turkey did not have any initiative in the West Asia, to the extent that Turkey's regional identity had faced a major challenge. As the AKP came in to power, the foreign policy of Turkey changed from one-dimensional ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is scheming to reabsorb much of Iraq and Syria into a neo-Ottoman Empire, using Islamic State jihadists as his unwitting tools to accomplish his goal, experts told Sputnik. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) The Team Turkey in Ankara would love to have the old Ottoman Empire back, American Kurdish Information Network Director ...