The Lausanne Monument was erected in 1998 to commemorate the Turkish annexation of Edirne with a statue of a woman holding a treaty and a dove symbolizing peace. Photo by Asher Kohn Each Friday, Roads ...

Near Turkey’s borders with Bulgaria and Greece, a new museum takes on centuries of Ottoman rule in the Balkans. Location was key. Strategically situated on the westernmost fringe of European Turkey, ...

Children from Greece's Muslim-Turkish minority of Western Thrace will study the Quran in Turkey's western Edirne province for a month. A total of 63 children from Greece's northeastern Komotini ...

EDIRNE, TURKEY—Kitchen utensils, including a huge spoon, dating from the Ottoman Empire have been uncovered during the restoration of Edirne Palace, where Sultan Mehmet II planned his conquest of ...

When the domes of Edirne’s abandoned Great Synagogue caved in, Rifat Mitrani, the town’s last Jew, knew it spelled the end of nearly two millennia of Jewish heritage in this Turkish town. Sign up here ...

Members of the Jewish Community of Turkey and the Chief Rabbi Foundation held an iftar (Muslim fast-breaking) dinner in the northwestern province of Edirne on Monday. Around 1,100 people attended the ...