A Chinese porcelain bowl is displayed at the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul, Türkiye, Oct. 23, 2024. The Topkapi Palace was the palace of the Ottoman Empire from the 15th to the 19th century. In ...

ISTANBUL, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Istanbul's Topkapi Palace will open a new museum later this year featuring the "world's most extensive porcelain collection," with rare Chinese ceramics from the Yuan and ...

Mohammadreza Mehrandish, curator of the National Museum of Iran, met with Topkapi Museum director Ilber Ortayli at the venue of Iran’s office in Istanbul. The decision for the program was made on the ...

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In total, Topkapi Palace houses approximately 12,000 Chinese porcelain pieces, including those exclusively crafted for the sultans. Ilhan Kocaman, head of the Topkapi Palace Department of the ...

Ilber Ortayli, who has been the curator of the Topkapi Palace Museum since 2004, was invited to Iran by the Iranian Academy of Arts. He is a leading Turkish historian and a professor of history at ...

ISTANBUL (Bernama) -- Even if you are not an avid admirer of the arts, architecture or history, the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul is still worth a visit. Go straight to the areas facing the sea ...

A photo exhibition opened here Wednesday with the help of one of Istanbul’s main tourist attractions that showcases a majority of the work on display for the first time to the audience. Mustafa Aksay ...

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, ...

The Topkapi Palace, one of the great historical sights of Istanbul, was founded in the 1460s by Sultan Mehmet II after he had occupied and sacked Constantinople, effectively ending the Byzantine ...