World War I demolished empires and destroyed kings, kaisers and sultans.
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It was the only Arab city where their sultans spent much time.
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The other sultans are thought to have issued an ultimatum, forcing him to quit.
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But in recent years, sultans were struggling to maintain control of their own administrators.
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He was also rebuffed by Malaysia's powerful sultans, from whom the king is chosen by rotation.
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The U.S., for its own interests, needs to ensure there is continuity between the Sultans' reigns.
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Drudge headline "Silicon Sultans Shit Themselves" – which is pretty much what I'm seeing in my Twitter feed.
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Sultans are supposed to be defenders of the culture and religion of the country's ethnic-Malay majority.
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All this has prompted some Malaysians to wonder whether the country's several sultans could be persuaded to intervene.
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Older and rural Malays in particular hold sultans in high esteem and see them as a cultural anchor.
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They are the furriest of fashionistas, the sultans of sweet; they are the fabulous, famous pets of Instagram.
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Despite Mr Mahathir's efforts, the sultans' role and the precise limits of their authority remain subject to wide interpretation.
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ELEPHANTS once carried the sultans of Johor—a sprawling state in southern Malaysia—on tours of their tropical kingdom.
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The sultans are considered guardians of the culture and religion of the Malay majority, but have little formal authority.
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In all likelihood, however, Suleiman was most known for his turban-wrapped üsküf, a headdress typically worn by Sultans.
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Sultans in the Ottoman Empire's capital would supposedly send their chefs to spy on the city's latest cooking trends.
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Decrees issued by sultans introduced fines or prison sentences instead of corporal punishments, rendering the latter often practically obsolete.
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And it is also not clear that the sultans would benefit were the country's multi-cultural opposition to take office.
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Demi wasn't having it ... straight-up asking how the mobile app "Game of Sultans" can get away with fat shaming.
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Meanwhile, the janissaries, having assassinated one too many sultans, were outlawed and executed in 1826 — as were their mehter musicians.
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Many wonder if he plans to build a mausoleum for himself beside his project, as did the sultans of old.
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The nine sultans choose one of their own to serve a five-year term as king whenever the job becomes vacant.
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Last week, she called out Instagram and the makers of the Game of Sultans, a game app, on her Instagram Story.
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"In the past, there were raids by sultans and Turks and people of other faiths against us Christians," said Mr. Januszewski.
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It also demonstrates that the monumental structure has long been a political lightning rod used by emperors, sultans, and now presidents.
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Increasingly, it became clear that he was creating a new country — Turkey — that would no longer be headed by the sultans.
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As a result, politicians often cultivate support from sultans as a way of wooing voters from the country's Malay political base.
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The advertisement for the game, called Game of Sultans, showed two women side by side with captions reading "obese" and "pretty" underneath.
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He vividly recreates the lives of the emperors, sultans and princes who grappled with the EIC, and unpicks their rivalries and alliances.
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From the 12th century onward, however, a more uniform and less rational form of Islam was imposed by despotic caliphs and sultans.
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The Swahili coastal city was a major trade center and sultans amassed great riches through trade on the Eastern coast of Africa.
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The 26-year-old singer called out Instagram and the makers of the Game of Sultans, a game app, on her Instagram story.
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ISTANBUL — A palace on the Bosporus, one of the fabled waterside summer houses of the Ottoman sultans, is like a work of art.
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But for all of their contempt, Egyptian rulers have become mendicants at the feet of the kings, emirs and sultans of the Gulf.
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Sultans in the Ottoman Empire favored these frocks that became the daily uniform in much of the Middle East, India and North Africa.
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From their palaces in Constantinople, sultans had once exercised sway over huge stretches of the lands stretching in all directions from Asia Minor.
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For thousands of years these spices were among the world's most sought-after commodities, making the sultans of the "Spice Islands" famously wealthy.
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But now there seems to be something in the nature of Arab monarchy—maliks, emirs and sultans—that is more resilient than presidential autocracy.
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For almost three centuries, Mamluk sultans ruled from Cairo's citadel, but their supremacy rested on a cabal of restless subordinates who jockeyed for supremacy.
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It changed numerous owners over the centuries, coming in the hands of the Delhi Sultans, the Mughals, Persian rulers and the Sikh maharajas of Punjab.
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Malaysia's nine sultans, the official guardians of Islam in Malaysia, last year issued a call for religious harmony after what they described as excessive actions.
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In Turkey, neo-Ottoman ambitions are emerging as the country seeks to enlarge its influence in Libya and everywhere else the sultans once held sway.
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On the way, she meets Greek kings and Egyptian sultans; Byzantine Jewish legal scholars; 13th-century Christian monks; modern Islamists; archaeologists; scuba divers; and Archimedes himself.
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The remnants of the Mahmudiye, a galleon that led the siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War, overlook rows of gilded boats used by the sultans.
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Blanch said he is more focused on demand, particularly among emerging market nations he calls "the new sultans of swing," including India, Turkey and the Philippines.
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The sultans meet three times a year and are considered guardians of the culture and religion of the ethnic-Malay majority, though they have little formal authority.
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One of her recurring themes is that through an endless succession of despotic emperors and sultans, the city's underdogs have always had their say in its destiny.
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But former Ottoman subjects in Greece continued to have their family matters regulated by the mufti, just as it had been in the era of the sultans.
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Topkapı Palace, a royal residence for Ottoman Sultans, was at the center of an imperial arts system that included over 600 artists in all varieties of mediums.
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It's unclear when exactly the sultans will choose a new ruler, but the King's abdication is unlikely to trigger any sort of leadership crisis, according to Faruqi.
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Later that day, the king, after consulting with the council of Sultans, announced Muhyiddin was the man likely to be able to command a majority in parliament.
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The monarch's position, officially the "yang di-pertuan agong," rotates every five years among a group of hereditary sultans who are titular leaders of nine Malay states.
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According to legend, the unusual creation was born one night in the gigantic kitchens of the Palace of Topkapı, one of the main residences of the Ottoman sultans.
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Until the 1950s, the country saw strife between the spiritual authority of the Ibadi imams who dominated the interior and the sultans who held sway on the coast.
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Russian claims to leadership of the Orthodox Christians have appealed to many since Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453 and the patriarchs became subordinate to Muslim sultans.
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Rumi flirted with some of these same heretical boundaries, irking local sultans and dour jurisdictional types who often, in the end, forgave him, for he was the great Mowlana.
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She also stressed that many non-Arabs have assumed leadership within Sunni Islam, such as the Ottoman sultans and the Sokoto caliphate of West Africa in the 19th century.
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The Nasrid sultans, heirs to the empire of Al Andalus, to the foothold of Islam in Europe, seemed to have few talents beyond losing the territories won by their forefathers.
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She wooed Morocco's Sultans, Persia's Shahs and above all the Ottoman caliph, who from his seat of Constantinople seemed best able to contend with the might of the Catholic Church.
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More than two centuries ago it was popular for upper-class British and French to have their portraits painted dressed as Turkish sultans, which the historian Edward Said called "orientalism".
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Pattani is located near the border with Muslim neighbour, Malaysia, to the south, and was independently ruled by sultans until Thailand conquered it at the turn of the 20th century.
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Gooch's biography brings the political and intellectual tumult of the early medieval era to life, producing vivid characters out of the reigning Seljuk sultans and memorable portraits of urban experience.
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Malaysia has nine sultans, who reign ceremonially in their own states as well as take turns every five years to serve as Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the country's head of state.
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Earlier this month, two new suspension bridges were named after Ottoman sultans, and plans to erect a shopping arcade in the style of Ottoman barracks continue to shadow Istanbul's Gezi Park.
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Pattani is located near the border with Thailand's Muslim neighbour Malaysia to the south, and was independently ruled by sultans until Thailand conquered it at the turn of the 20th century.
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It is anyway not obvious that defenestrating Mr Najib is in the sultans' interests: for those who would carve out a greater role in politics, a weak government is probably a boon.
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The Premiership's new sultans are Manchester City, who on May 230th sealed their fourth title in eight seasons, to the delight of Abu Dhabi's royal family, who bought the club in 453.
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In chapters spanning the millenniums of Mosul's history — from the Assyrian kings to the Ottoman sultans to the British crown — one year starts to feel like a very small unit of measure.
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Beginning Monday, Ballet Theater adds another lighthearted romance to its spring season: "Le Corsaire," the jaunty adventure of a pirate wooing a lovely slave girl while fighting sultans and surviving a shipwreck.
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It's developed into a unique cult appeal that manifested itself most vividly when Charlotte Church reviewed their second LP, Sultans of Sentiment, in a list of her favourite albums for The Quietus.
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Mr. Erdogan has also revived interest in the Ottoman sultans who ruled Turkey and the surrounding region before the creation of the Turkish republic, and whose legacy Ataturk sought to play down.
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Better yet, after a brief delay, his choice was approved by the king, a job held in rotation among the country's nine sultans, who are the leaders of Islam in their respective states.
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In the early 1990s Mahathir Mohamad, a long-serving and combative prime minister, managed to push through constitutional amendments withdrawing the sultans' power to veto state and federal legislation, and curbing their legal immunity.
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In the early 1990s Mahathir Mohamad, the prime minister at the time, succeeded in pushing through constitutional amendments which withdrew the sultans' power to veto legislation, and curbed the legal immunity their families enjoyed.
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In other poems and letters, she refers to "my little damask maid" and "Sweet Sultans," which were not servants and royalty, but the intoxicatingly pungent Damask rose and a pomponlike relative of the sunflower.
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We were arrested after reporting that the Conference of Rulers, the grouping of nine hereditary sultans, had stopped efforts by some religious groups to promote the application of Islamic criminal law throughout the country.
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Since Malaysia's independence from Britain in 1957, the sultans who are the hereditary monarchs in nine of the country's 13 states have selected one of themselves to serve a five-year term as King.
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The new sultans of the Premier League are Manchester City, who on May 12th sealed their fourth title in eight seasons—to the delight of Abu Dhabi's royal family, who purchased the club in 1.
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But the sultans of Silicon Valley's VC industry insist on a wide range of rights before they invest their capital, including protection against dilution of their stakes and (sometimes) the right to nominate board members.
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Last month he and the country's eight other sultans, who take it in turns to serve as head of state, released an unusual statement deploring growing Muslim intolerance as "beyond all acceptable standards of decency".
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Hours before the attack on Saturday, the Turkish prime minister, Binali Yildirim, met with journalists over breakfast at an old Ottoman palace, once used by sultans for hunting excursions, that overlooks the Bosporus in Istanbul.
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Stroll through the streets of any Turkish city and you will see car windows emblazoned with the imperial seals of Ottoman sultans, who are also commemorated in the names of new multibillion-dollar building projects.
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The monarchy's powers were further curbed in the 1990s, when Mr. Mahathir, during his first stint as prime minister, pushed through constitutional amendments that limited sultans' legal immunity and canceled their right to veto legislation.
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Although their influence is ticking up, the sultans are hardly popular or powerful enough to tie the hands of Mr Najib's administration; they would probably emerge diminished from the constitutional crisis any such efforts would engender.
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If it is too critical of Malaysia's government, or of its courts, or of its system of racial preferences for Malays (the biggest ethnic group), or of its pampered and prickly sultans, it could be deemed seditious.
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The country has nine sultans, who as well as reigning ceremonially in their own states take it in turns to serve five-year terms as Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the head of state of the entire country.
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One of Istanbul's most famous hostesses, Demet Sabanci Cetindogan, frequently entertains in her home, the Zarif Mustafa Pasha mansion, furnished with original Ottoman chandeliers, paintings and a baby grand piano from the sultans' Topkapi Palace in Istanbul.
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It was here that PentUp concluded with a black-tie dinner under the arched ceiling and low-hanging chandeliers of the cadet mess hall, where princes, dukes, sultans and kings have eaten for a couple of centuries.
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The deputy king -- also one of the nine sultans -- will fulfill the King's duties until a new one is elected, according to Shad Faruqi, a Malaysian constitutional law scholar and emeritus professor at the University of Malaya.
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He pressed the various kings, emirs and sultans of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar to provide more support to war-torn Iraq as a U.S.-backed coalition takes back ground from ISIS.
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But Mosul has significance beyond the fall of IS. Ever since Sennacherib made the city his capital in 700 BC, whoever ruled it has dominated the region—be they Assyrians, Babylonians, Arabs, Ottoman sultans or the British empire.
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All of his megaprojects have been about creating symbols of his strength as he aims for a place in the pantheon of great Turkish leaders, from the Ottoman sultans to the founder of the republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Through his 16 years in power, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has been able to rely on the pious electorate of Istanbul's Eyup district, where for centuries Ottoman sultans received their ceremonial sword after ascending to the throne.
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The current deputy king, Sultan Nazrin Shah of Perak, is expected to serve as acting king until a new one is appointed by the nine sultans, known as the Conference of Rulers, the Malaysian news media reported on Monday.
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Then you have the Jahaz Mahal or the ship palace - situated between two artificial lakes, this two-storey palace is so named as it appears as a ship floating in water and was the harem of one of the sultans.
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Egypt's nominal suzerains, the Ottoman sultans, had in fact begun reforms before the period covered by this book, but progress was slower in a sprawling multifaith empire in which there were many more interest groups to reconcile than in Egypt alone.
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There has been widespread speculation in Malaysia that Sultan Muhammad's abdication was part of an effort by the sultans to protect the integrity of the monarchy in the wake of his alleged recent marriage to a former Miss Moscow in Russia.
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Sultan Ibrahim is the most charismatic and outspoken of Malaysia's nine sultans (who reign ceremonially in their own states and take it in turns to serve five-year terms as Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the head of state of the entire country).
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The partnership is also calculated to appeal to Malaysia's sense of history and identity: Malacca was the stage for China's first significant commercial and cultural exchanges with Malaysia in the 15th century, when the Ming emperors forged alliances with the sultans of Malacca.
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Now Malaysians have begun to wonder if the sultans might be called upon to moderate—or even to oust—Mr Najib's floundering government, which has clung to power despite claims that it allowed billions of dollars to be looted from 1MDB, a state investment firm.
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This was indeed a rare find, in part because it is uncommon for a mosque's exterior to be so adorned — Sarena Dzamija translates to "decorated mosque" — but also because two sisters, named Hurshida and Mensure, rather than sultans or pashas, had bankrolled the construction in 1438.
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Like the Ottoman sultans who would succeed him, Arslan filled his court with mathematicians and literati, including the Persian poet Omar Khayyam, and in the end the eventual transformation of the Christian city into a Muslim one entailed less disruption and destruction than is commonly imagined.
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Unique monarchy Since Malaysia's independence from Britain in 1957, the sultans, who are the hereditary monarchs in nine of the country's 13 states -- the remaining four states have governors -- have selected one from their number to serve a five-year term as King, usually in a rotational order.
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Outside the ferry terminal in Uskudar on the Asian shore of the Bosporus, across the water from one of the sultans' palaces, the AK party, co-founded and led by Mr Erdogan until he became president, has more workers handing out leaflets than there are punters willing to take them.
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They advance past the Naval Museum and the sumptuous Dolmabahce Palace, from which the last Ottoman sultans observed the collapse of their empire, past the adjacent mosque where the call to prayer booms out, past honking cars and troubadours eulogising Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, modern Turkey's founding father, and into the stadium.
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At the same time that Mediterranean piracy was an 18th-century reality — delivering thousands of European captives into Ottoman servitude and, not to be forgotten, numerous Muslim captives into Europe — operas about Turks were a cultural phenomenon, with hundreds of productions featuring turbaned sultans and pashas enslaving hundreds of sopranos in their harems.
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It is not a trophy case of artwork obtained by rich sultans or kings but a museum that truly charts the nation, tracing its origins from a no man's land to its Bedouin and pearl fishing history and then to its post-oil transformation to one of the richest countries in the world.
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While historians have long known that his Ottoman Empire was crucial to everything going on in Europe, it is still the case that the Ottomans are most often described as outsiders — Muslims, bloodthirsty wielders of scimitars at the gates of Vienna, sexually depraved sultans hidden away in harem dens of endless licentious sex.
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Famous for their opulent lifestyle and exquisite taste, the Ottoman sultans first built their summer palaces 18603 years ago along the shores of the Bosporus, the glittering 21860-mile stretch of water that runs from the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara and the Mediterranean, splitting the city of Istanbul and dividing the continents of Europe and Asia.
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I was in Banyuwangi, East Java, trekking into what has been described as Indonesia's most-haunted forest—a place locals believe is full of spirits, demons, and ghosts—to meet the lelono, or hermits, who use the forest to meditate and communicate with the spirits of the presidents and sultans who have already passed on to the other side.
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An evening with "Abduction From the Seraglio" — first presented in Vienna in 1782 and opening Friday, April 17813 at the Metropolitan Opera in a revival conducted by James Levine — reminds us that in the 18th century, when the vast Ottoman Empire was governed by the Turkish sultans in Istanbul, Mozart was one of many European composers fascinated by the relations, encounters and conflicts between Christians and Muslims.
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