The Republic of Turkey was the successor state of the Ottoman Empire, following the overthrow of Sultan Mehmet VI Vahdettin by the new Republican assembly of Turkey in 1922. This new regime delivered the 'coup de grâce' to the Ottoman state which had been practically wiped away from the world stage following the First World War.

In 1961, the US sited missiles in Turkey, angering the Soviet Union and causing the Cuban Missile Crisis. In 2008, the US is to site missiles in Poland. Anyone guess what happens next?

Once a sleepy fishing village, Marmaris has ballooned into one of the Aegean coast, if not Turkey.Little of its history remains as the town is now a modern development with tourism at its heart and soul. The population swells to a massive 200.000 in the summer with most hotels, restaurants, night clubs, shops catering to low cost package holidays

Micheline Marcom's book 'Three Apples Fell From Heaven" a fictional and poetic history of the Armenian genocide in Turkey during World War One is now a screen play. It was a tour de force book, I can't wait to see the movie!

Wild turkeys, whiskered auklets, and whip-poor-wills: we look at the history and uncertain future of birds and birdwatching in America.

A German schoolteacher changed the modern history of Oriental rugs. Harald Bohmer, a chemistry professor, went to Turkey to teach in 1960, and while there he became interested in the dyes he found in Turkish rugs and kilims.