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Topkapi Palace served as the home of the Ottoman Sultans from 1478 to 1856 and is one of Istanbul's most popular attractions. It officially became a museum in 1924, shortly after the end of the ...

Mohammadreza Mehrandish, curator of the National Museum of Iran, met with Topkapi Museum director Ilber Ortayli at the venue of Iran’s office in Istanbul. The decision for the program was made on the ...

A Chinese porcelain bowl is displayed at the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul, Türkiye, Oct. 23, 2024. The Topkapi Palace was the palace of the Ottoman Empire from the 15th to the 19th century. In ...

Ilber Ortayli, who has been the curator of the Topkapi Palace Museum since 2004, was invited to Iran by the Iranian Academy of Arts. He is a leading Turkish historian and a professor of history at ...

The major Ottoman Empire-era landmark will be offering nighttime visits all summer for travelers looking to beat the heat and get a fresh perspective on the palace. Contributor. Forbes contributors ...

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 ...

A photo exhibition opened here Wednesday with the help of one of Istanbul’s main tourist attractions that showcases a majority of the work on display for the first time to the audience. Mustafa Aksay ...

"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 ...