Had Ertugrul Osman, the exiled heir to the Ottoman throne, attended his own funeral this week, he would have been amused at the incongruity of the crowd. In one corner were a couple of old friends ...

Though accomplished as a painter, looking back on Osman Hamdi Bey as just an artist would be to hugely underappreciate his remarkable achievements in other fields. Born in 1842 to the Ottoman ...

Pasha's military genius stood out throughout his career and he was respected even by his adversaries, such as the Russian ...

The last of the six-part lecture series on Archaeology and Heritage Conservation saw Professor Dr Edhem Eldem, Boaziçi University, talk on Osman Hamdi Bey: An Ottoman Archaeologist, to a keen audience ...

Ertugrul Osman, who has died aged 97, should, technically speaking, have been addressed as His Imperial Highness Prince Ertugrul Osman Efendi. 27 September 2009 • 5:22pm Had events been otherwise his ...

Osman spent most of his years living modestly in New York Ertugrul Osman - the would-be sultan known in Turkey as the "last Ottoman" - has died in Istanbul at the age of 97. Osman would have been ...

Among the precious memorabilia exhibited from July to October last year in the exhibition Valletta and the Dominicans: A Common Journey at the Dominican priory in Valletta, there was a simple chalice ...