Turkey's first lady hailed the Ottoman harems from Turkey's imperial past as "a school for preparing women for life," AFP reports. The harem is a much romanticized part of Imperial palaces in Turkey, ...

The wife of Turkey's president has described the harem of the Ottoman era as an "educational establishment that prepared women for life," reports say. Emine Erdogan was speaking at an official event ...

EMPRESS OF THE EAST: HOW A EUROPEAN SLAVE GIRL BECAME QUEEN OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE By Leslie Peirce Basic Books, $32, 359 pages In the early 16th century, long before the advent of newspapers, one of ...

The wife of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Emine, has praised the harem as an "educational establishment" during a speech. Her husband had also made controversial remarks on motherhood on ...

The Topkapi Palace Museum Harem Apartments are among the top tourist attractions at Topkapi Palace. For almost 400 years (1465-1856), Topkapi was used as the primary residence of the Ottoman Sultans, ...

Give me the year the Turks conquered Constantinople, or the year they took control of Islam’s third holiest site – Jerusalem? The Ottomans: Europe’s Muslim Emperors began by asking why the story of ...

President Erdogan and his wife Emine have been married for 38 years The wife of Turkey's president has described the harem of the Ottoman era as an "educational establishment that prepared women for ...