In 1922, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the modern Turkish Republic, sent the last Ottoman sultan packing aboard a British warship. Two years later, Ataturk banned the caliphate ...

The princess was exiled from Istanbul with the rest of the Ottoman imperial family after the empire fell and the caliphate was abolished by the fledgling Republic of Turkey in 1924. Mourad’s ...

Protestors in Dhaka see Ottoman Caliph Sultan Abdul Hamid II as 'source of inspiration' to establish an independent ...

Politically, King Fouad seemed to be inheriting the status of the head of the biggest Sunni state in the region after the Ottoman caliphate, which made him side with Al-Azhar. Since the 1960s ...

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