{"id":824980,"date":"2026-06-15T13:20:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=824980"},"modified":"2026-06-15T13:20:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:20:55","slug":"the-ottomans-a-cultural-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2026\/06\/15\/the-ottomans-a-cultural-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iGsvC9GSUFY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This video celebrates the cultural legacy of the Ottoman Empire, from &#8220;its aesthetics and architecture to its scientific and medical innovations, including the first vaccinations.&#8221; This video is based on Diana Darke&#8217;s book, The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy, which &#8220;presents the magnificent achievements of an empire that lasted over 600 years and encompassed Asian, European, and African cultures, shedding new light on its complex legacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diana Darke is a Middle East cultural expert with special focus on Syria. With degrees in Arabic from Oxford University and in Islamic Art &amp; Architecture from SOAS, London, she has spent over 30 years specializing in the region, working for both government and commercial sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can get her book from Thames and Hudson and other retailers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video celebrates the cultural legacy of the Ottoman Empire, from &#8220;its aesthetics and architecture to its scientific and medical innovations, including the first vaccinations.&#8221; This video is based on Diana Darke&#8217;s book, The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy, which &#8220;presents the magnificent achievements of an empire that lasted over 600 years and encompassed Asian, European, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":774783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2939],"tags":[2101],"class_list":["post-824980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultureart","tag-ottoman-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}