When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, Turkey was established ... It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders in Europe. The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and ...

The San Remo Conference in 1920 codified colonial interests out of the remains of the defunct Ottoman Empire. Ethnic, religious and topographical considerations were ignored or minimized.

After a 14-year civil war, half the population displaced from their homes, and at least 300,000 dead, Syria was ready for ...

The governments of Armenia and Turkey will sign a peace agreement in Zurich on Saturday that would normalize relations after ...

By asserting itself as the successor to the Ottoman Empire, Turkey is reshaping the ... s actions do not explicitly seek to redraw national borders, its administration of Syrian territories ...

In the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire was already mired in many of the challenges ... people became factors in that trade -- whether as laborers being "traded" across borders, as brokers, investors, ...