It wasn’t my first visit to Gaziantep in south central Turkey, one of the oldest cities in the world. But this time, I was on a mission to make a full discovery journey through its globally celebrated ...

March was widely observed in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia as Women’s History Month, spotlighting the achievements of women, past and present. This annual monthly commemoration ...

In the border city of Gaziantep, a secret jazz cafe is helping residents reconcile with the city's turbulent past and offering hope for the future. On Wednesday and Saturday nights, if you follow the ...

Tamar Gürciyan successfully defended her thesis entitled "An Investigation to the Adaptive Reuse of Late Ottoman Armenian church in Aintab, Surp Asdvadzadzin church/Liberty Mosque" at the Technical ...

An honour killing that took place in Ottoman Aintab at the end of the 16th century is examined in this paper. As it seems the qadi (kadi) of Aintab did not punish the murderer at all. What underpins ...

Responding to the letter of a Turk seeking information, Latter-day Saint missionaries arrived in Constantinople in 1884. They found little opening for proselytizing among the Muslim majority and soon ...

For over 2,000 years, Gaziantep Castle stood strong, its structure remaining intact despite waves of invasion and conquest that saw it controlled by a series of Middle Eastern empires. But after more ...

As an Aintabtsi Armenian, Dr. Ümit Kurt’s book The Armenians of Aintab; The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province pushed me to rediscover Aintab both in its glorious and grey period. My ...