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 ...

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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 ...

The must-visit museums in the Turkey’s largest city Istanbul will continue to welcome art and history aficionados during the four-day Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. With Turkey set to observe the ...

TEHRAN – A copy of the 11th century manuscript of the Holy Quran kept at the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul was unveiled here in Tehran on Sunday. The book inscribed by Uthman ibn Husayn al-Warraq ...

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Istanbul's Byzantine architectural wonder, the Hagia Sophia; Topkapi Palace, home to the Ottoman imperial family for four centuries; and Konya's Mevlana Rumi Museum, which houses the tomb of the 13th ...