Dubai (AFP) - Can a smash TV soap bring closure for historical wrongs and succour from contemporary turmoil? Check out a Turkish series on the 16th-century Ottoman monarch Suleiman the Magnificent.

It’s said that when Suleiman the Magnificent died on a Hungarian battlefield, his followers built a tomb on the spot where his tent once stood. Now, after centuries of searching, historians might have ...

Turkish star Meryem Uzerli, who is known globally for her role as a former slave who becomes the powerful wife of Ottoman emperor Suleiman in Turkish megahit soap “Magnificent Century,” is headed to ...

How Turkish TV dramas explore, and sometimes flaunt, some of the Middle East's touchiest social issues. A scene from Turkish soap opera Magnificent Century / Reuters ISTANBUL - In a state-of-the-art ...