In 1462, Vlad III of Wallachia faced the overwhelming forces of Sultan Mehmed II in a brutal war for survival. Outnumbered ...

Mehmed, who was just 21 when he conquered Istanbul, put the Ottoman Empire on the path of great transformation. Sultan Mehmed II was just 21 years old when he defeated the Byzantine Empire, ...

With the death of Mehmed II in 1481, the Ottoman Empire was thrust into a ruthless succession crisis between his sons Bayezid and Cem Sultan. Ottoman tradition recognized every prince as a legitimate ...

Mehmed II is pertinently recognized as Mehmed the Conqueror in the world, and Abu al-Feth (The Father of the Conquest) in the wider Islamic world, owing to his conquest of Istanbul, which was the ...

Discovered by Turkish researchers, a centuries-old epic poem written to honor Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, commonly knowns as Mehmed the Conqueror, has been published in Turkish and English for the first ...

A Renaissance portrait of Sultan Mehmed II, better known at Mehmed the Conqueror, has been purchased by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality at a Christy's auction in London, sparking praise, ...