He discussed his book, which looks at the impact of World War I on ordinary Ottomans and details the factors leading to the fall of the empire in war’s aftermath. The National World War I Museum ...

Before then ... common in the Ottoman Empire that there was a Fountain of Execution in the First Court, where the chief executioner and his assistant went to wash their hands after decapitating ...

The Europeans, who had colonized much of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century ... But almost immediately after the war, Arab resistance movements emerged to challenge European dominance.

Fewer know that he was beheaded after a falling out with authorities. Historian Ilber Ortayli, head of the museum at Topkapi Palace, said the Ottoman empire was the "basic identity" of the Turkish ...

its doomed alliance with Imperial Germany costing hundreds of thousands of Ottoman lives and dealing a death blow to the already creaking empire. But 100 years after the surrender of the Ottomans ...