"This,” said the guide who was taking us around the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, “is the Courtyard of the Concubines.” We blinked at the sunlight and surveyed the row of windows closed off with ...

Hidden behind the palace walls, the Mabeyn Passage of Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkiye once served as a secluded corridor used by Ottoman sultans.

A heavily armed man opened fire at one of Istanbul's main tourist attractions on Wednesday, wounding a Turkish soldier and a security guard before police snipers killed the attacker, officials said.

Turkish firefighters managed to extinguish a fire Sunday that erupted at the historic wooden restaurant inside the renowned Topkapi Palace in Istanbul -- the main residence and administrative ...

The Turkish armed forces' "Mehteran," or military band, unit performed on Wednesday at Istanbul's iconic Topkapi Palace. The event, featuring a centuries-old tradition, was held by the Presidency of ...

The historic corridor connecting the sultan's private chambers, known as the Mabeyn, to the Imperial Harem at Topkapi Palace has been transformed into the tile gallery following an extensive ...

ISTANBUL, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Istanbul's Topkapi Palace will open a new museum later this year featuring the "world's most extensive porcelain collection," with rare Chinese ceramics from the Yuan and ...

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