ANKARA, Turkey — The Turkish government formally converted a former Byzantine church into a mosque Friday, a move that came a month after it drew praise from the faithful and international opposition ...

Seraffettin was at home under coronavirus ­lockdown on May 29 when a Muslim cleric recited Quranic verses atop a carpeted dais inside Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia museum. But the imam’s reading, to mark ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — In its more than 1,400-year existence, the majestic domed structure of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul has served as the Byzantine Empire’s main cathedral, a mosque under the Ottoman Empire ...

An IFEX member initiative creates a unique museum against censorship…open 24 hours a day. A trip to a museum should be educational, and a virtual tour through the Museum of Crimes of Thought – the ...

A shepherd walking through the highlands of Mugla’s Seydikemer district discovered a Roman‑era grave stele bearing carved ...

ESKİŞEHIR, Turkey — Turkey’s first purpose-built modern art museum has opened in a college town hours from the country’s biggest city of Istanbul, an endeavor to redraw the boundaries of the art scene ...

The Winchester Museum in Edgefield has for decades celebrated the wild turkey and its preservation, but the collections there are soon to be packed up, shipped out and installed at the Wonders of ...

EDGEFIELD, S.C. (AP) — The Winchester Museum in Edgefield has for decades celebrated the wild turkey and its preservation, but the collections there are soon to be packed up, shipped out and installed ...

ISTANBUL — In its more than 1,400-year existence, the majestic domed structure of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul has served as the Byzantine Empire’s main cathedral, a mosque under the Ottoman Empire and a ...